high brass

noun

brass containing 65 per cent copper and 35 per cent zinc, used for most applications

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How to use high brass in a sentence

high brass came in quantity and the entire story—except for one bit of biology—was told.
Subspace Survivors | E. E. Smith
The high brass in the Power Board considered that everything was moving smoothly.
The Pirates of Ersatz | Murray Leinster
It's just that I'm still young enough to take the kind of shoving around these high brass figure we're going to get.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen Wollheim
Answer their questions about Betsy and I think some very high brass will be grateful.
The Machine That Saved The World | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Yet the climax of the main song is reached when the lighter phrase rings fervently in the high brass.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies | Philip H. Goepp

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