trumpet

Example Sentences

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Flea, was a little boy, his attraction to the trumpet was all-consuming and amorous.

From Los Angeles Times

He kept coming back again and again, and every time Marlene would run at him across the garden, trumpeting, tossing her ears, flapping them, but that only infuriated the dog even more.

From Literature

Thudding drums, an electric guitar that chugs like a tank’s engine turning over and blaring trumpet fanfare announce the onset of football on CBS, Fox and NBC.

From Salon

The WBC allowed fans to bring in 16 “permissible instruments,” including bongos, cowbells, maracas and trumpets.

From Los Angeles Times

He led the school band and taught me to play the trumpet.

From Literature