beat time
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A man in a wheelchair wearing a pale-gray blazer beat time to the music with his eyes closed, a look of intense joy on his face.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
“Perhaps not,” Alice cautiously replied: “but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2016
And in the middle of it the little man raised his hands and beat time, and grinned at the audience, and said something.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down on the track a hurdler runs like mad to beat time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Curving her arms out, bending her knees, she hopped on one foot and beat time with the other.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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