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

"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

A long note was sounded on a bugle, and everyone mounted up.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

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

He heard a flare of bugles, looked down the road toward Union Mills.

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 first full rut here, 2013, we had a report of him standing on the beach one morning, bugling while looking east,” Downes says.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

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

In the midst of this myriad procession, as though they were the centre and cause of all, were two splendid White Cranes, bugling as they flew.

From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson