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bugle

noun as in musical horn

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Morris held the microphone with both hands like he was blowing on a bugle and urging the crowd to charge.

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In the face of febrile bond markets, this week the faint sound of the bugle of retreat on the US trade war got louder.

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According to the legend, several people went to the mouth of this tunnel and one went down with a bugle and his dog.

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During one futile counterattack, “the French infantry made a gallant show, advancing across the Belgian beet fields with colors unfurled and bugles sounding the shrill notes of the ‘charge.’

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This is the position soldiers assume every day on an army post as the flag is lowered and the bugle call “Retreat” is played.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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