bugle
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City Hall, which dates to the 16th century, toots out a cheerful jazz bugle call several times a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Morris held the microphone with both hands like he was blowing on a bugle and urging the crowd to charge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
"Eventually the bugle stopped blowing and he was never seen again," Dr Waterman adds.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
This is the position soldiers assume every day on an army post as the flag is lowered and the bugle call “Retreat” is played.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2024
They were beginning their unprofessional petition, when the faint bugle sounded from beyond the market.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Some 4,000 troops marched in formation through the streets, their scarlet sleeves and white gloves swinging in unison to the sound of drums and bugles from marching bands, including one group of musicians on horseback.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
Indeed, I didn’t know about salmon runs, elk bugles and warbler migration routes like my classmates did.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2022
His voice carried the perfect balance of mourning and menace, lamenting the bugles “saddening the evening air.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2022
Firefighters waved from the back of an old truck festooned with fairy lights and Christmas gifts, while officers of the Guardia Civil police force rode in on white horses blowing bugles.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2022
The bugles were blowing and he was done.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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“I’m coming up here to be the best player in the country,” he bugled, and The Fiver’s not about to mock a man for being self-confident.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2016
For months, the government had bugled Canada's eagerness to be elected to the United Nations Security Council.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A three-gun salute was fired by a battalion of the 159th U. S. Infantry, taps were bugled by an American Legion post.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She bugled that the party would "operate as usual."
From Time Magazine Archive
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"It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow," he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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The drivable North Carolina side of the park is much less crowded; this old high-mountain valley has huge herds of elk you can hear bugling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2018
At the National World War II Memorial another German, as it happens, listens reverently to the bugling of taps by a retired Marine Band member.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2015
He plays in several bands with his wife, Carol Kowzan, and has just picked up viola, so he wouldn’t mind slowing down his bugling career.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2015
If you want precision, use the scientific name, Grus grus, which is onomatopoeic, recalling the birds’ powerful bugling calls.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 12, 2015
It was nearing the end of the elk rutting moon but the bulls were still63 bugling.
From The Yellow Horde by Charles Livingston Bull
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