How to Use bugler in a Sentence

bugler

noun
Definition of buglernext
  • The weary, off-key notes of the bugler sound throughout the night.
    — George Pendle, Esquire, 26 July 2017
  • At the 2020 Derby, the bugler played the notes to Foster’s melody.
    — Richard H.c. Clay, The Courier-Journal, 27 Apr. 2022
  • And then there was a bugle call — a very loud one, by a team of buglers.
    — Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • The sun was setting, and in the distance, a bugler sounded taps at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
    — Author: Dave Philipps, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • There will be a rifle salute and taps will be played by a bugler.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2018
  • The Navy will conduct the burial with an honor guard and bugler.
    — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • The short service will end with a bugler sounding taps.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2020
  • The silence was ended by a gun salute and the Royal Marines buglers sounding the Last Post.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The air of the original encampments was filled with the sounds of drummers, buglers and fifers.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The bugler, as always, stands apart from the rifle detail, alone.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
  • After laying the wreath, Biden saluted and then made the sign of the cross as a bugler played taps, the lonely call floating in the late-spring air.
    — ABC News, 30 May 2022
  • Taps was played by a bugler in the Red Arrow veterans group, who pulled his mask down to sound the mournful salute.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The bugler statue was regarded as the final piece to the park’s overhaul.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 15 May 2023
  • Codie Williams has been a bugler at the barracks, the only Marine post in the country to still blow a live horn for the daily calls of reveille, church, chow, etc.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
  • The bugler sounds taps as each cross its witness bears to the journey of a soldier released from earthly cares.
    — William H. McRaven, The Atlantic, 31 May 2021
  • Before a bugler played taps, Grasso stood in front of his wheelchair and spoke one last time to his lieutenant.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2021
  • Three volleys of gunfire sounded, and a bugler played taps.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The bikers lined up, somber, as the sun set on flag-waving mourners in the cavernous arena and saluted when a bugler played taps.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • That segment will lead into a scene of a lone bugler playing taps from an empty IMS flag stand.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2020
  • Compacted, the bugler’s notes explode rather than just sound.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • At his funeral on Monday, there will be tributes and tears, solemn salutes, and the mournful sound of a bugler playing Taps.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
  • When the remains arrived in Detroit, a bugler played taps in otherwise silent streets.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Instead, he is permitted only a lone musician, a bugler who grants the father's request to play the notes found on the paper, and taps is born.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 14 May 2020
  • Steve Buttleman, who has been the race bugler at Churchill Downs for 23 years, will also serenade viewers before the race.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 2 May 2020
  • There is still a need for colorguards, buglers and wreath sponsors, as well as members of the community to come out to honor our fallen heroes.
    — Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Taps was played by a bugler and McKenna delivered some prepared remarks.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The bugler, standing off to the side, started playing and the sound rolled through the hills surrounding Arlington National Cemetery.
    — Clint Hill, Town & Country, 22 Nov. 2016
  • Witness their insistence on continuing to fire up the crowd with a blasting cannon and a warbling bugler.
    — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Robert Fletcher was buried at Arlington in 2018 with standard honors: a casket team, a firing party, a bugler and a chaplain.
    — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2020
  • For the second year, buglers from Hinsdale Central's marching band participated in the service at Bronswood.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017

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