bugle
noun
a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
bugled
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past participleof bugle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bugle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
buglenouna brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
Example Sentences
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“I’m coming up here to be the best player in the country,” he bugled, and The Fiver’s not about to mock a man for being self-confident.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2016
A three-gun salute was fired by a battalion of the 159th U. S. Infantry, taps were bugled by an American Legion post.
From Time Magazine Archive
When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is bugled as "the New Definition of Dictionary," the "newest, biggest and best."
From Time Magazine Archive
"It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow," he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
