fife

Example Sentences

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The two presidents celebrated the “ironclad alliance” amid fife and drums on the White House lawn ahead of their high-level meetings and a state dinner.

From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2023

A fife and drum corps perform at King and Market streets before the parade passes through.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

Here camp and its covert campaign of subversion feel wonderfully urgent and necessary: the gap-toothed fife player in the march toward “nonbinary.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019

A boy no bigger than Dusty Miller had put a fife to his lips, was trying to blow it.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes