[
US
/ˈtɹəmpəts/
]
[ UK /tɹˈʌmpɪts/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈʌmpɪts/ ]
NOUN
- pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids
How To Use trumpets In A Sentence
- The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
- It's strumpets like you who are setting back the women's rights movement.
- The reeds and trumpets sounded a little muddy and unfocused on the opener, Bake. Times, Sunday Times
- The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
- The darling yellow trumpets are thrusting up in fir and birch woods across Scotland for our delight. Times, Sunday Times
- The royal visitor was saluted by a fanfare of trumpets.
- With 320 students in snappy blue and white uniforms playing shiny trumpets, trombones and tubas as they march in briskly changing formations, the band's numbers are full of razzmatazz.
- the brilliant sound of the trumpets
- Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon. The Land of Little Rain
- We need a big powerful sound from the trumpets in the final passage.