bugle

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

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

Still, it’s hardly an overstatement to suggest that feat — not to mention Leiweke’s zero-carbon bugle call challenging other sports power brokers to match it — barely registers among fans.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

When supper was over, Uncle George went outside the door and blew his army bugle, long and loud.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Then both hands would charge faster and faster up and down the keyboard, armor clashing, bugles blowing, and by the end, I knew it didn’t matter whether Napoleon ever fought again or not.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

“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

She bugled that the party would "operate as usual."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

The distinct sound of bugling bull elks reverberated across the hills.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2020

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

It is home to boreal toads and bugling elk, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, massive flocks of mountain bluebird, and a diverse suite of waterfowl.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2017

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

Then from far off in the forest I heard a high, clear, melodious, bugling note.

From Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey