TRUMPETING in a Sentence

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David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of them was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRUMPETING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trumpeting
 n.  publishing by or as by sounding a trumpet; resounding call, as that of the elephant
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  Mrs. Merriwether snorted a trumpeting snort.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Several of the other ladies burst into tears and Mrs. Merriwether, trumpeting loudly into her handkerchief, embraced both Mrs. Elsing and Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Zephine was laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he had purchased at Saint-Cloud.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER
4  Noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
5  But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations and trumpet bursts of Jondrette.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
6  Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of him a sort of trumpet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN
7  While his Eminence was seeking for me in Paris, I would take, without sound of drum or trumpet, the road to Picardy, and would go and make some inquiries concerning my three companions.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 23 THE RENDEZVOUS
8  See the sneaks come, without drum or trumpet.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
9  With one foot on the sea and one foot on the land he blew from the arch-angelical trumpet the brazen death of time.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  Like a beast in its lair his soul had lain down in its own filth but the blasts of the angel's trumpet had driven him forth from the darkness of sin into the light.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  The frail gay sound smote his heart more strongly than a trumpet blast, and, not daring to lift his eyes, he turned aside and gazed, as he walked, into the shadow of the tangled shrubs.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  Some day soon the Angel of Death will sound his trumpet for me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  He saw it creeping into the stained trumpet of a Tyrian convolvulus.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
14  In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
15  But ere her commander, who, with trumpet to mouth, stood up in his boat; ere he could hopefully hail, Ahab's voice was heard.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
Example Sentence:
1  The Toronto Zoo board did plenty of trumpeting Tuesday over delays in moving their three African elephants to a California sanctuary.
2  The government has been trumpeting tourism as a growth industry.
3  A trumpet called behind, ordering another troop to file right into a field of growing wheat.
4  Brave actions never want a trumpet.
5  The main orchestral brass instruments are the horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba.
6  Near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
7  Our trumpeter was a Frenchman, at this time ill in bed; yet he blew his trumpet till he could sound no more.
8  The exposition was opened with a fanfare of trumpets and the firing of cannon.
9  We need a big powerful sound from the trumpets in the final passage.
10  The radio trumpeted the news all over the world.
11  David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of them was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany.