brass

Example Sentences

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Prosecutors said the scheme failed only due to a lack of support from military top brass.

From Barron's

He employed a wide range of materials in them — wood, bronze, steel, aluminum, brass, cardboard, paper, canvas, plastic, vellum, photogravure and wallboard.

From Los Angeles Times

The MGM brass realized, Mr. Eyman writes, that “she possessed something valuable—an electric charge that made an audience sit up and take notice.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The London-born eight-piece brings together strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion and collective vocals to craft sweeping compositions that invoke swells of emotion and overwhelm the senses.

From Washington Post

There are hazy effusions of brass; little thickets of rattling, shivering percussion; and whooshing, glistening strings that were a textural link to the Ives, as well as to Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” which came after intermission.

From New York Times