BUGLE in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for BUGLE, such as:

1. The bugles called to each other like brazen gamecocks.
2. When he heard the bugle call, he caught up his gun and dashed out.
3. A bugle blared and a bass voice shouted the command to break ranks.
4. It was calm, and at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard from the hill.
5. And at this moment, Wamba winded the bugle, for the whole had passed so speedily, that he had not time to do so sooner.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUGLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bugle
 n.  a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration
 n.  a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares
Classic Sentence:
1  He is negotiating with the Jew, I suppose," replied De Bracy, coolly; "probably the howls of Isaac have drowned the blast of the bugle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  Reginald Front-de-Boeuf also looked out upon the field, and immediately snatched his bugle; and, after winding a long and loud blast, commanded his men to their posts on the walls.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  He then gave breath to the bugle, and winded once and again the call which he described, until the knight had caught the notes.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
4  The Knight undid the clasp of the baldric, and indulged his fellow-traveller, who immediately hung the bugle round his own neck.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  And at this moment, Wamba winded the bugle, for the whole had passed so speedily, that he had not time to do so sooner.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  "It is the bugle of Malvoisin," said the Miller, starting to his feet, and seizing his bow.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  But Connie, walking behind, had watched the wheels jolt over the wood-ruff and the bugle, and squash the little yellow cups of the creeping-jenny.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  A bugle blared and a bass voice shouted the command to break ranks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  They crashed into the second verse and Scarlett, singing with the rest, heard the high sweet soprano of Melanie mounting behind her, clear and true and thrilling as the bugle notes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  It was calm, and at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard from the hill.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
11  Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  They were hearing drums and bugles and the Rebel yell, seeing footsore men going by in the rain with torn flags slanting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  The bugles called to each other like brazen gamecocks.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence:
1  When he heard the bugle call, he caught up his gun and dashed out.