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
"He was going to blow the bugle if he got in any difficulty," Dr Waterman says.
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
“That was a secret bugle call that only admirals are allowed to hear.”
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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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
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
Standing alongside their nurses and listening to the bugles play, residents with dementia who often could not remember what they had for dinner the night before would slowly remove their hats.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2020
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
When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But the day after, a St. Patrick's Day parade bugled through the campus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last May they bugled their love for each other in a $30,000 newspaper ad and scoffed at separation rumors even as each of them was photographed with other stunning companions.
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
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
But their bugling might be heard throughout the day, particularly early and late.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2011
So this bugling begins about seven in the morning, and penetrates the most hermetically sealed apartments.
From At Home with the Jardines by Lilian Bell
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