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bugle

[byoo-guhl] / ˈbju gəl /
NOUN
musical horn
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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

Daffodils clustered like bugle bands in front yards as the Beans Boys left school behind on a sunny, cloudless day.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

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

At last, bugles blared, drums rolled, and the parade began.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

“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

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

For months, the government had bugled Canada's eagerness to be elected to the United Nations Security Council.

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

In late September, the Valles Caldera National Preserve makes some noise for the elk rut with the Jemez Mountains Elk Festival, which includes a bugling competition — so practice your elk impression.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019

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

If you want precision, use the scientific name, Grus grus, which is onomatopoeic, recalling the birds’ powerful bugling calls.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 12, 2015

We passed the barracks where bugling seemed to be in full play.

From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood



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