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  • adjective resembling the sound of a trumpet

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Examples

  • Every year, the trumpet-like blossoms grew by the barbed-wire fence that ran along the front of her farmhouse in rural Alabama and curved around to the barn.

    Mary Daily: The Legacy of Blooming Where You're Planted Mary Daily 2011

  • Even Rodgers and Hart's "Johnny One Note" now seems to describe a trumpet-like tsunami of sound that could engulf and devour all of creation.

    Highlights and Dark Nights Will Friedwald 2012

  • Here's a moment of non-photography blogging: 21st century computer modelling software has enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument called the Lituus to be recreated - even though no one alive today has heard, played or even seen a picture of this forgotten instrument - allowing a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for the first time in nearly 300 years.: (story)

    Conscientious: Science Archives 2009

  • The Hot Sardines play high-energy traditional jazz with a Parisian accent "Sweet Sue, Just You" actually sounds better in French, and their chief assets are vocalist Elizabeth Bougerol , pianist Evan Palazzo , and clarinetist Jay Rattman , who also plays soprano with a trumpet-like, Sidney Bechet-inspired attack.

    Passing Down the Piano Torch Song Will Friedwald 2011

  • Ms. Blythe brought a brilliant, trumpet-like timbre to Fricka, the moral center of the opera, but being stuck in her chair didn't give her much opportunity to explore Fricka's complexity.

    Where Intimacy Walked the Plank Heidi Waleson 2011

  • Here's a moment of non-photography blogging: 21st century computer modelling software has enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument called the Lituus to be recreated - even though no one alive today has heard, played or even seen a picture of this forgotten instrument - allowing a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for the first time in nearly 300 years.: (story)

    Conscientious: Science: July 2009 Archives 2009

  • During two days of emotional speeches and deliberations among lawmakers, rows of police stood guard outside the domed legislative chambers as protesters, some of them blowing trumpet-like vuvuzelas popular among soccer fans at the World Cup in South Africa, demonstrated their opposition to the bill.

    Hong Kong Endorses Part of Electoral Reform Effort 2010

  • FIFA again considered banning the trumpet-like instrument for a moment, then decided against it.

    Ahmed Rehab: What the Vuvuzela Is Up With the Jabulani? Why World Cup 2010 Sucks So Far 2010

  • The vast, fleshy and trumpet-like Marsyas, which filled the Tate's Turbine Hall, the giant, reflecting pod-like sculpture Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park and his recent record breaking show at the Royal Academy, the most successful exhibition ever presented by a contemporary artist in London, are just a few examples of his work that have made a mark on the public's imagination.

    Yazmany Arboleda: The Return of the Wizard Yazmany Arboleda 2010

  • On the third day of emotional deliberations by lawmakers and noisy protests by activists armed with trumpet-like vuvuzelas, Hong Kong's legislature finally voted 46 to 12 in favor of passing the second half of a government-sponsored reform bill.

    Hong Kong Passes Electoral Reform 2010

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