bugle
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Also designed by Hartnell, the Queen's 1953 Coronation dress was made from silk produced in Kent and features gold bugle beads, diamantés and pearls in exquisitely designed embroideries.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
It’s coming, it’s coming, like a bugle, a call to arms, like a wall falling, we can feel it like a heavy stone moving down, pulled down inside us, we think we will burst.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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
During one futile counterattack, “the French infantry made a gallant show, advancing across the Belgian beet fields with colors unfurled and bugles sounding the shrill notes of the ‘charge.’
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
It is bugled as "the New Definition of Dictionary," the "newest, biggest and best."
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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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 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 Grey, Zane
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