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UK
/ɹɪvˈeɪl/
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[ US /ˈɹɛvəˌɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛvəˌɫi/ ]
NOUN
- (military) signal to wake up
- a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise
How To Use reveille In A Sentence
- As the caretaker manager released his squad at Hampden last Wednesday, the mobile of Rainer Bonhof, standing at the back of the room, trilled to the sound of a bugle's reveille.
- As the bugler played the reveille he finished his salute and walked past the Pool of Remembrance where a crowd had gathered.
- An Army padre was to lead the short service after a bugler played reveille.
- Casey kept her room perfectly clean, barely touching her old playthings and rose early each morning, expecting a reveille from Agent Michael.
- The drums did not beat reveille until 6:30 and it seems everyone is sluggish in rising this morning, seeing as both sides are so frozen there is little chance of anything happening.
- The bugler's name was Jospeh and he used to play the reveille first thing in the morning and sound the retreat each night at sunset.
- In common with ceremonies across the land, the Last Post and Reveille rang out as the Few were remembered and honoured.
- Apres j'ai vu ou plutot entendu de dessous ma couette Mademoiselle Drucker annoncer le sommaire de son journal et Segolene Royale se trouvait en premier sujet donc comme je me suis reveillé sur le meme journal et qu'ca parlait de segolene royale, je me suis donc bien endormi quelques seconde mais avec une impression de longue durée. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
- If a leaf of the paper, which I slowly, warily, stealingly turned, made but one faintest rustle, how did that _reveille_ boom in echoes through the vacant and haunted chambers of my poor aching heart, my God! and there was a cough in my throat which for a cruelly long time I would not cough, till it burst in horrid clamour from my lips, sending crinkles of cold through my inmost blood. The Purple Cloud
- (The following sketch is by the author of "Swallowing an Oyster Alive!" and was originally published in the St. Louis "Reveille.") This celebrated gentleman is a recognized "hoss" certainly; and, we are told, rejoices as much at his cognomination, as he did at his nomination for the chair gubernatorial, last election. The Camp Jester, or, Amusement for the Mess.