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bugle

[byoo-guhl] / ˈbju gəl /
NOUN
musical horn
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Iheanacho hitting a post sounded the bugle on the cavalry charge.

From BBC May 16, 2026

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

Each week, we listened to marching bands play the national anthem but heard the bugle call of “Taps.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 22, 2023

"The cavalry is coming, can't you hear that bugle?"

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

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

There are no bugles and no bombardments, the children of the house play in the skittle-alley, and the dog rests his head against my knee.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

“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

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

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

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 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 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

If you want precision, use the scientific name, Grus grus, which is onomatopoeic, recalling the birds’ powerful bugling calls.

From Newsweek Mar. 12, 2015

Chiavari, the historic little port between Genoa and Pisa, is more noted as the birthplace of the barbaric "chivaree" razzing of newlyweds with its raucous serenade of dishpans, sour-note bugling and such.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown



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