bugle
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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
Last semester a bugle horn blared "Taps" inside my head after I assigned a review of "Kontemporary Amerikkan Poetry."
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2023
A moment later there came the bugle call: Dan, Dan, Dan, Butterfield, Butterfield, then forward.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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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
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“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
She bugled that the party would "operate as usual."
From Time Magazine Archive
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When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But the day after, a St. Patrick's Day parade bugled through the campus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"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
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“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
I can’t forgive that wretched little bugling boy for taking you out in that horrible boat and nearly killing you.
From Dorothy's Travels by S. Schneider
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