bugle
noun
a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
had bugled
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past perfectof bugle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For months, the government had bugled Canada's eagerness to be elected to the United Nations Security Council.
From Time Magazine Archive
For days past, when the breath of the Equinox had surged out of the west, the missel-thrushes had bugled from the wind-swayed topmost branches of the tallest elms.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
