brass
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One prisoner refers to a "rocket testing site" while discussing bratwurst supplies for the top brass.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
During his eight years as a Laker there seemed to be countless occasions when Lakers brass capitulated to his “demands.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
The event started with the Crown of Scotland being escorted down the Royal Mile from Edinburgh Castle before the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland brass ensemble performed a fanfare in the debating chamber.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
McLean’s business helped the Pentagon, but his idea wouldn’t have succeeded without military brass forcing rival shippers to agree on common container designs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
We stepped into the cab, which was paneled with an art deco pattern of inlaid wood and had brass railings on three sides.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The brasses, which Honeck put to ominous use in the Tchaikovsky, snarled and shone, and the horns traced rainbow arcs over the stage in the Rachmaninoff.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
Their sound has a lovely finish: softly molded winds, round-toned brasses, strings that never turn strident.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Sharp snaps of snare drum punctuate a gradual increase in forcefulness to a bleak, expansive landscape of solemn brasses and a droning in the strings, which melts into an almost Tchaikovskian Romantic sweep.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
It relies not on computers but on hand-played, largely acoustic instruments: guitars, accordions, brasses, reeds.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
The harness was polished and the horse brasses glittered like gold.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing brass
Musical Instruments - Introductory
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Musical Instruments - High School
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