Instead he walked a very short, very monotonous beat of less than a hundred paces on Liberty Island.

There was only one solitary drum, its slow monotonous beats echoing across the river like the pounding of some monstrous heart.

He hears the monotonous beat of the African drum and confuses it with his own heartbeat.

A moment later he turned to retrace his monotonous beat.

Sometimes really close with the antiaircraft guns, which pumped out their rounds with a monotonous beat.

The dull, monotonous beat of tom-toms sounded weirdly through the gloom.

Muted TV voices overlapped and somewhere a radio was tuned in to a rock station that thumped out a monotonous beat.

The monotonous beat continued for half an hour.

Chapter Seven A strange and monotonous beat echoed all around the chilled cavern.

To be alone in the dark, listening to the monotonous beat of his cold, lonesome heart.