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

"Eventually the bugle stopped blowing and he was never seen again," Dr Waterman adds.

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

Figure 4.41: Although limited by the fact that it can only play one harmonic series, the bugle can still play many well-known tunes.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It is bugled as "the New Definition of Dictionary," the "newest, biggest and best."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 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

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

They could be heard bugling away in the site office, and could be observed from the office door.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 12, 2015

Again McLaggan regretted his rifle, for the virile fulness of that bugling suggested an unusually fine bull and a splendid pair of antlers.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts