Example Sentences

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The bass-drums interaction of “Duck” Dunn and Al Jackson Jr. remains the gold standard in soul.

From Chicago Tribune • May 13, 2012

And on Sunday, from the oughts — they only broke up five years ago!— came Death From Above 1979, the noisy, dancey bass-drums duo.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2011

And now he made out their band, plodding stolidly along, trombones and bass-drums wheezing and banging away in the rifle-smoke; he could even see the band-master swinging his halberd forward.

From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The Canonicus, standing close behind me, thundered out the bass over my head, as if he were singing with bass-drums and trumpet obbligato in a cathedral.

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth