How to Use bugle in a Sentence

bugle

noun
  • Krazy George banged the drum and his roommate, Don Bogdan, played the bugle.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2021
  • There was also a navy cardigan with loads of bugle beads that my sister had that then was passed down.
    Simon Chilvers, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The piercing cries of the bugle, along with the ways in which the boys struggle mightily with the unseen force of the wind, are full of poignance and futility.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Two years after Baker handed him a bugle, Jordan got up the nerve to sound taps at a funeral for the first time.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
  • Depending on conditions, bugles can be heard from a mile or more away.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Pleasantly chewy, the crullers made lovely sponges for the take-no-prisoners black pepper sauce, the taste equivalent of a bugle blast.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • The number, which retails for $5,990, features a sweeping neckline outlined by bugle bead embroidery and has a high leg slit at the back.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Trumpeter Murray Gordon brought two instruments in a carrying case in the event one of them failed, a silver trumpet with valves and a bugle which plays in one key.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Seventy-four cabins front the red clay horse-racing track; when the starting bugle sounds, quarter and dollar bettors crowd the balconies and porches.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • On July 27, the somber notes of a bugle call commemorated a milestone that often goes ignored on the home front: the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice.
    Bobby Miller, National Review, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The 14-inch-long smell-measuring device, which looks like a cross between a radar gun and a bugle, is one of Mr. McGinley’s most significant inventions.
    New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • 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.
    Brian Melley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
  • For the Fashion Week event, Sánchez wore a Staud black minidress to her show, embroidered with jet bugle beads and a silver constellation pattern (her fiancé’s love of space shared across many mediums).
    Chloe Malle, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The salad sounds like a pleasant melody but eats like a bugle blast, what with fried shallots, chili jam, lime juice, fresh mint and roasted coconut engaging with the steamed banana blossoms, chicken and shrimp in your mouth.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Later in the season, when most of the females are pregnant, visitors may just see some hopeful flirting and hear the animal’s distinctive bugle.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • An aortic aneurysm is a balloon-like bugle that develops in the aorta, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The brief ceremony on Nov. 10 – held just prior to the start of classes that day – featured the flag raising by American Legion members along with Marks playing the bugle as a few parents and students observed.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Hornsby plays Kenyatta as a man always standing rigidly at attention, a soldier who hears the bugle calling.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Taps is instantly recognizable as the somber 24-note bugle call played at American military funerals and ceremonies.
    CBS News, 16 May 2022
  • The unexpected moment preceded the performance of taps on bugle by Murray Gordon of Evanston, the ceremonial ringing of the silver bell and the tone out, signifying a radioed moment of honorarium.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • In all, Ziino contributed to community events for other occasions, totaling 49 years in various roles, including drum and bugle competitions, snow shoes races and art festivals.
    Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Grace Adduci, a representative of Bugles Across America, played taps, a short bugle call most associated with military funerals.
    Stacy St. Clair, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2021
  • Krazy George banged the drum and his roommate, Don Bogdan, played the bugle.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2021
  • There was also a navy cardigan with loads of bugle beads that my sister had that then was passed down.
    Simon Chilvers, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The piercing cries of the bugle, along with the ways in which the boys struggle mightily with the unseen force of the wind, are full of poignance and futility.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Two years after Baker handed him a bugle, Jordan got up the nerve to sound taps at a funeral for the first time.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
  • Depending on conditions, bugles can be heard from a mile or more away.
    Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Pleasantly chewy, the crullers made lovely sponges for the take-no-prisoners black pepper sauce, the taste equivalent of a bugle blast.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • The number, which retails for $5,990, features a sweeping neckline outlined by bugle bead embroidery and has a high leg slit at the back.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Trumpeter Murray Gordon brought two instruments in a carrying case in the event one of them failed, a silver trumpet with valves and a bugle which plays in one key.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022

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