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

In the face of febrile bond markets, this week the faint sound of the bugle of retreat on the US trade war got louder.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

Each week, we listened to marching bands play the national anthem but heard the bugle call of “Taps.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Then from very far away the sound came back, thin and clear and small, like a little bugle answering the big one.

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

But no shots were fired and no bugles sounded.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

“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

It is bugled as "the New Definition of Dictionary," the "newest, biggest and best."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

“When you hear that bugling, it’s the most wild sound ever,” Rosenberger said.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022

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

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

For as often as not there will be an aerial bugling, a call, “Grus! Grus!”

From Newsweek ● Mar. 12, 2015

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

From Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey