brass

A brass band works down the block and stops at the park outside.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Researchers also found a pair of broken glasses; an IV needle with a bottle topper; a brass item with writing, perhaps a cigarette case; and a button with Japanese-looking iconography.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

In another meeting with department brass, Tan alleges in the lawsuit, he was told to “leave it alone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

Commercial airlines chief Stephanie Pope will be joined by other Boeing brass and local government leaders at a ribbon-cutting ceremony early Friday afternoon for the new "North Line" MAX production line in Everett, Washington state.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

On his brass buckle, an eagle’s talons grip arrows and an olive branch.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Their sound has a lovely finish: softly molded winds, round-toned brasses, strings that never turn strident.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

Sharp snaps of snare drum punctuate a gradual increase in forcefulness to a bleak, expansive landscape of solemn brasses and a droning in the strings, which melts into an almost Tchaikovskian Romantic sweep.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

In the first two seasons, Britell followed a fairly confined playbook of the eight-chord motif’s different guises: a beating piano similar to that Mozart fantasia, darkly regal strings and brasses.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

"Several thousand brasses and other artefacts - collectively known as the 'Benin Bronzes' - were taken by the British, and subsequently sold off in London to recoup the costs of the military mission."

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022

The harness was polished and the horse brasses glittered like gold.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck