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

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

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

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

Across the river, the bugles cried up warning.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

“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

A three-gun salute was fired by a battalion of the 159th U. S. Infantry, taps were bugled by an American Legion post.

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

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

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

“When you hear that bugling, it’s the most wild sound ever,” Rosenberger said.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022

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

Sleepers woke from underground, as Mother Carey's silent trumpeters went bugling ahead of her, and her winged horse, the Warm Wind, came sweeping across the meadows, with the white world greening as he came.

From Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton