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bugle

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

At the same time we were both getting all this attention together with the drum and bugle corps.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

A band came by, playing an incoherent song, fifes and bugles.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

“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

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

But the day after, a St. Patrick's Day parade bugled through the campus.

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 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

At the National World War II Memorial another German, as it happens, listens reverently to the bugling of taps by a retired Marine Band member.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2015

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



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