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• He has been noodling with that trumpet all afternoon, and every bit of it sounds awful.From the entry noodle
• The herald blew his trumpet and shouted that the King was dead.From the entry herald
• He soured on the trumpet, so she never heard it again.From the entry sour on
• The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.From the entry flourish
• The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.From the entry blare
• The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.From the entry strident
• Trumpet is a transposing instrument while trombone is not.From the entry transposing
• Trumpets, tabors, shawms, and pipes fanfared the court to the midday repast in the presence chamber.2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood, →ISBN. From the entry fanfare
• There was no flourish of trumpets and drums to send us off, no cheering crowds.2009, Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education, →ISBN. From the entry send off
• A flourish of trumpets and a shakerful of stardust to welcome Jeff Irving into the role.2009 July 28, Richard Ouzounian, “Robin Hood, stolen from Sherwood Forest”, in Toronto Star. From the entry shakerful
• He’s trumpeting an Obamaesque campaign promise of “change you can’t believe in.”2008 March 1, Doug Ward, “Rhino party wants to abolish the environment”, in The Vancouver Sun, page B8. From the entry Obamaesque
• Marsalis played a muezzinlike trumpet part early on, in “Call to Prayer.”2007 May 26, Nate Chinen, “Say Amen, Everybody, 15 Years Down the Line”, in New York Times. From the entry muezzinlike
• A hundred trumpets fanfared as they entered, echoing brazenly in the black vault above.2005, Christine Davidson, The Darkling and the Lady, →ISBN. From the entry fanfare
• I had my trumpet in my lap and showed it to him.2001, Quincy Jones, Q - The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, page 64. From the entry ready like Freddy
• Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time.1982, Arthur Winfield Knight, Kit Knight, Beat angels, page 7. From the entry jazz
• “Where’s the man with the trumpet?” Ralph, sensing his sun-blindness, answered him.1954, William Golding, chapter 1, in Lord of the Flies, Penguin. From the entry screw up
• Silence, silence,’ the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor.1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus. From the entry indefatigably
• But as they were upon going forth, a trumpet was sounded without, three strident blasts.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 7. From the entry upon
• The second student is a hard-of-hearing, eighty-year-old man with a long, white beard and a huge ear trumpet.2012, Joseph DiMona, This Was Burlesque. From the entry ear trumpet
• In fact the flugel, though related to the trumpet, reveals its mellow gentleness here, and the clarinet its strident edge.2010 November 15, “BBCNOW/Roth at St David’s Hall, Cardiff”, in The Times. From the entry flugel
• Figure 37 also demonstrates the use of catabasis, or descending motion, in the parts for trumpets, pianos, and low strings.2007, Victoria Adamenko, Victoria Bowles, Neo-mythologism in Music, page 101. From the entry catabasis
• Consumer watchpuppies by the basketful start yapping, led by legislators seeing a no-lose position to trumpet at election time.2004, Broadcasting & Cable, volume 132, numbers 45-46, page 38. From the entry watchpuppy
• Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.1990, Francis Bebey, African music: a people's art, page 64. From the entry oboe
• Collins shifts the slide, and the trumpet phrase gets faster and faster until it blurs into a buzzy pitch.1988 March 11, Kyle Gann, “Music Notes: Nicolas Collins plays the radio”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry buzzy
• The eight-part Te Deum, with its stabbing golden trumpets, reflects, even at that distance, the blazing mosaicry of St.1979, Musical Heritage Review - Volume 3, Issues 10-18, page 66. From the entry mosaicry
• The verses are syllabated over a brisk march-like tune, picked out with first violins, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and trombone.1973, Julian Budden, The Operas of Verdi, page 118. From the entry syllabate
• The trumpets called again, and in strode his majesty, in regal purple, be-crowned and be-sceptred, and sat himself upon the throne.1925 February 24, “Opening Night of Gyro Mardi Gras Success: Prizes Awarded for Fancy Costumes — Mrs. F. Thomas is Queen”, in Free Press…. From the entry be-sceptred
• It has something to do with brazen trumpets and violence.1919, Albert Bigelow Paine, Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm. From the entry callithump
• For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.2021 October 31, Ben Swenson, “A female-only dystopia, from the author of ‘Vox’”, in Daily Press, page 6. From the entry doomsdayer
• Yet still, with jingoistic horns and trumpets drowning out the roar of the deep, the stampede towards the cliff's edge gathers pace.2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50: As Britain hurtles towards the precipice, truth and democracy are in short…. From the entry jingoistic
• The explosive introduction, the instrutable and tender scat-clarinet dialogue, the spritely piano chorus, and the majestic trumpet chorus—contrast is far more important than unity.2014, Thomas Brothers, “‘Some Kind of a God’”, in Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, New York, N.Y.; London: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton…. From the entry chorus

Meaning of trumpet

1. noun A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
2. noun Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
3. noun The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.

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Questions about trumpet in a sentence

How do you use trumpet in a sentence?

Trumpet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.”

What is a short sentence with trumpet?

“The bird trumpeted a second time.”

What does trumpet mean?

Trumpet means a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.