How to Use trumpet in a Sentence

trumpet

1 of 2 noun
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  • The band used flutes, clarinets and trumpets to play the songs’ melodies.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Stolen from the car was her male friend’s vintage trumpet.
    — cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Nathan works in software and grew up playing the trumpet and singing in choirs.
    — James Bash | , oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • As a youth, Gallaher took up the trumpet, then French horn and then the drums for his high school band.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The light, the trumpet, the sweat and the shame of the young man, the profound indifference of the world to him—all of it exceeded language.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Miles Davis comes out of a tradition of playing the trumpet.
    — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Both blues hum against the turquoise of the bedspread, the touches of gold (guitar and trumpet) and red (drum and lips), and the dreamer’s black pants, skin and hair.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Nevin will bring his trumpet and a few of his arrangements.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Moore, who plays the trumpet, said the rapper energized the rehearsal.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2022
  • At the center was a man who played an Andean trumpet of war called a pututu.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That’s just the beginning: Here are five minutes to fall in love with tenors, the flute, the trumpet, Brahms, string quartets and so much more.
    — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The song features trumpet from yMusic co-founder CJ Camerieri.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The song holds special meaning to the singer as her father assists on trumpet.
    — Annie Reuter, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • For example, a loud and high-pitched trumpet might mean an elephant is in pain.
    — Hazra Khatoon, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • There aren’t many trumpet marine stars out there to idolize.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And if even that seems like too much, remember this: Heaven hears the silent whispers of the heart just as clear as the loudest trumpet.
    — Fox News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Enter trumpet, harp and electric bass, all still in the background, kind of hidden, the music swirling, in step with the story.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Due to their large trumpet-like blooms, amaryllis plants will enliven any part of your space.
    — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In the backstage hallway, a mariachi walks by while warming up on his trumpet.
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Ahead of the ninth inning, Australian trumpetist Timmy Trumpet waltzes out of the stands and onto the grass with his trumpet in hand.
    — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But Willie Earl, consigned to the band with his trumpet, starts to drown himself in bitterness and heroin.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Sel's tent in the VIP area served a wonderful gluten-free dish made with black truffle dashi, smoked trout roe and black trumpet mushroom aioli.
    — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Kahana began to clean the trumpet while telling everyone about his son who is fighting in Gaza.
    — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Moonflower's large, trumpet-shape flowers unfurl in the evening and stay open until the sun rises.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2022
  • In 2003, Odell Graham played trumpet in the five-member band Afro Jazziacts.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
  • From overhead speakers, a trumpet solo echoed across the platform.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The trumpet only has three keys, called valves, which are played in seven combinations to make all of the possible notes.
    — Shea Tuttle, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Creaking backs will straighten, some buttons will groan, and purposeful fire will find a home in the eyes of these veterans as the trumpet sings out.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 28 May 2023
  • With a trumpet fanfare, an official read the proclamation aloud from a palace balcony.
    — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • His first Disney job was as a trumpet player at Disneyland.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
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trumpet

2 of 2 verb
  • He likes to trumpet his own achievements.
  • The law was trumpeted as a solution to everything.
  • And there's a piece of him that seems to take pride in that, and to use that to trumpet his position.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The more Biden feels compelled by high gas prices to trumpet oil and gas drilling, the worse those divisions will get.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The big water pipes that stuck out of the concrete foundations seemed to trumpet a new age.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Schiff, who has raised the most money, has run TV ads in recent weeks trumpeting Garvey’s two votes for Trump.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • That’s why a disappointed Jones was in no mood to trumpet his revival.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The message Abbott is trumpeting across the state appeals to Garrett.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Lots of fans have trumpeted the praises of the Taylor Swift of sandwiches.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Both Xi and Khamenei took turns denouncing the West and trumpeting their new partnership.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Teens Take Charge has organized brief, weekly strikes at schools, where students trumpet their views on how to even the playing field.
    — Erin Richards, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Hieroglyphs spell out their names and trumpet their titles.
    — National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • And some locals turned out to trumpet their opposition to the president.
    — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • The former state lawmaker trumpeted his false claims about the 2020 election during his campaign to lead the party.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The typical politician would be eager to trumpet his or her access to someone who could be the next president.
    — Tyler Bridges, NOLA.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • But Trump shrugged off the criticisms and used his statement to trumpet his role in developing vaccines.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2021
  • This type of television trumpeted itself as good screen time.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Now she was being trumpeted as not only a Negro player, but a heroine forging the way for the entire Negro race.
    — Sally H. Jacobs, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2023
  • There is a natural tendency of nations to trumpet their successes and virtues rather than their failures and vices.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Some bubbly wines hide in plain sight, housed in bottles that don’t trumpet their effervescent status.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2021
  • His counterpart, Jaxson Dart, will be trying to trumpet his arrival as the Trojans’ quarterback of the future with a big showing in his first start.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • His supporters trumpet a crackdown on criminal gangs in the country that resulted in a dramatic fall in the murder rate, once the highest in the world.
    — David Shortell, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • If, on the other hand, Biden assesses that the chances of a two-state peace process are nonexistent in the near term, Netanyahu will trumpet his ability to convince the Americans to stay out of his way.
    — Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In this latest blog, Cohen and YouTube are keen to trumpet the financial contribution the service makes to the music business.
    — Eamonn Forde, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • To trumpet the cause, Winter’s will present a 60-minute livestream featuring pianist Ben Paterson playing and singing at 3 p.m. Oct. 3.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • China this year has ramped up a pilot of a digital yuan and is expected to trumpet its use at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February.
    — Joe Light, Bloomberg.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • On Tuesday, a number of headlines trumpeted that the World Health Organization was saying the death rate was 3.4%.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Career self-help in the ’80s increasingly trumpeted the notion that a career is a calling and that work is an extension of your true self.
    — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
  • A week after the deadly crash at 4th and King, drivers trumpeted their horns as transit officers, who weren’t there earlier in the month, blew their whistles and tried to soothe the traffic.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And what better way to trumpet the feat than by releasing a variant of its second hypercar, the Chiron.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2022

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