brass

It doesn't seem to matter who they are missing from their team, Brighton are just bold as brass with the way they press and get men forward.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The invigorating brass or woody bass of salsa, son and cha-cha-cha are all but gone.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Life begins as a fanfare — a regal entry heralded by brass — and ends as a solo cello lament and the serene acceptance of death as sung by a choir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

A thin brass chain dangling from the wire.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

The orchestra, from the pointed brasses to the curling woodwinds, found its way to unanimity of utterance.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

“Mythologies” revels in the palpably human effects of an acoustic ensemble: the trembling friction of bows on strings; the exhalations of breath into brasses; the grumble of bassoon, with audible clicks of fingers on keys.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

With sensuous yet lively strings, the English Concert offered poised playing throughout, even on difficult-to-control period woodwinds and brasses.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

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

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck