| This kettledrum was probably used in falconry to call the falcon back to the owner. |
| The orchestral kettledrum has a practical compass of five full tones. |
| He was tall and light-skinned, with a kettledrum chest and the kind of fat stomach that somehow manages to look hard: the body of a tight end. |
| Its thunder, which began as a distant kettledrum murmur, approaches with ever-sharper cracks that rock the canyon, rattling us in the process. |
| One of them is a small drum on a vertical frame of lathe-turned wood whereas the other is a metallic kettledrum. |
| Like the huge kettledrum of some warring tribe each thunderclap momentarily burying the sounds of bumper-to-bumper traffic beyond the liquid curtain suddenly drawn across the awning. |
