trumpeter

How To Use trumpeter In A Sentence

• Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
• Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
• The escalade was to be attempted by a band of ten; five of the trumpeters and buglemen were selected and four centurions, the Ligurian was to be their guide. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
• The mallards, golden-eyes and trumpeters were still there, working the shallows of the river for aquatic plants.
• Kenny Wheeler, the expat Canadian trumpeter and jazz composer, was 82 last week – but this big band session featuring new themes and plenty of flugelhorn improvising, was recorded only a few months ago. Kenny Wheeler: The Long Waiting – review
• A screaming-chorus of local popstrels accompanies one song, a marching band of local trumpeters and saxophonists another.
• Entire avian families are essentially confined to the Neotropics, as are such unique species as screamers, trumpeters, sunbittern, hoatzin, and boat-billed heron.
• Tuneful trumpeters joined harmonious horn players at Bury Music Centre when they staged annual concert performances.
• We had reached the outer court by this, and were hurrying for the bridge that led to the pontlevis when we saw a tall man, his cuirass glittering like silver in the moonlight, step out of the shadow and signal to a trumpeter, who stood at his side. Orrain A Romance
• If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? — The Abbot