bugle
noun
a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
were bugling
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past progressiveof bugle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At last, apparently only a deep thicketed ravine separated us from the ridge upon which the elk were bugling.
From Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey
It was now the season when the Elk were bugling on the mountains.
From The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton
