fife
Example Sentences
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President Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol celebrated their “ironclad alliance” Wednesday amid fife and drums on the White House lawn ahead of high-level meetings and a state dinner.
From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2023
There was a “Spirit of ’76”—three men with fife and drum.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020
Here camp and its covert campaign of subversion feel wonderfully urgent and necessary: the gap-toothed fife player in the march toward “nonbinary.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019
“Reenactors are always disappointed when they can’t cross, but safety is always the most important thing,” Smith said by phone as a fife and drum played in the background.
From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2017
Then he entered in haste, and made a bed of furs that he took out of an old chest, and built up a fife, and cleaned Therem’s wounds and bound them.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing fife
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