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

According to the legend, several people went to the mouth of this tunnel and one went down with a bugle and his dog.

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

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 was interrupted by bugles, and there it was: Dan, Dan, Dan, Butterfield, Butterfield.

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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 Ernest Thompson Seton