bagpiper
Americannoun
plural
bagpiperExample Sentences
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“His performances were powerful, long-duration ritualistic experiences that take over the senses,” David Watson, a guitarist and bagpiper who performed with Mr. Niblock for decades, wrote in an email.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
McEwan, too, can be funny, as he demonstrates in a scene with a funeral bagpiper who obliviously marches to the wrong grave.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022
A lone bagpiper, "shaking from cold", played MacCrimmon's Lament and an Imam from Woking, Surrey, performed the burial rites, according to an account published on the Inverness Mosque website.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2022
A lone bagpiper beneath the historic east peristyle might be a nice, inexpensive add.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2022
“What a racket,” Madame Ionesco said appreciatively of the bagpiper, as she stumbled half asleep from the hired carriage and flashed her semitoothless grin.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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