two-beat
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Subsequent recording artists—Sinatra, Crosby and others—changed the meter to either a 4/4 or a cut-time two-beat meter in keeping with the jazz era that swept the U.S. in the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
This traditional South Korean music genre gets its name from the American "foxtrot", which shares the trot's distinctive two-beat rhythm.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
The Washington Post’s two-beat headline sums it up superlatively well: “A couple ate raw marmot believed to have health benefits. Then, they died of the plague.”
From Slate • May 8, 2019
He added melody to those words and asked for a two-beat da-dum phrase as exclamation point to end the lyric.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2017
Some students may even be able to play a three-beat on one leg and a two-beat on the other.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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