Example Sentences

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Several men and women blew hollowed-out bamboo pipes called pū ʻohe, producing a deep, trumpetlike sound.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2023

A few minutes later, the mammoth repeats the sound, but this time, instead of trailing off into nothingness, it ends with several shrill, trumpetlike staccato bursts.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2012

By the 1980s, when her cabaret career was going full steam, Ms. Whiting had developed a trumpetlike vocal authority that matched her gregarious, emphatic stage personality.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2011

Others include tromboncino, trombolina and trumpet squash, all of which refer to its fruits’ trumpetlike coiled shape.

From Washington Post

What were the thoughts of Elisha when night came, and he was alone where no eye could see, and no tongue bear witness, save only the trumpetlike tongue of God?

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin