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  • adjective Resembling a trumpet or its sound.

Etymologies

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trumpet +‎ -like

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Examples

  • He snorted once, and without even saying hello asked in a trumpetlike, gravelly voice, “Anyone here got a wrench?”

    Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010

  • For forty minutes he spoke, the great bald dome of his head gleaming with sweat, the trumpetlike sonorities of his broad vowels filling the room.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • In the center of everything, a huddled crowd of trumpetlike flowers poked out of a ceramic pot, undoubtedly from Christian.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

  • In the center of everything, a huddled crowd of trumpetlike flowers poked out of a ceramic pot, undoubtedly from Christian.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

  • For forty minutes he spoke, the great bald dome of his head gleaming with sweat, the trumpetlike sonorities of his broad vowels filling the room.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • A.D. (3 stars) Andreas Scholl, 'Heroes' (Decca) The German countertenor lends his sweet, trumpetlike voice to arias by Handel, Gluck, Mozart and Hasse.

    Critical Moment: Reviews 2008

  • I flipped through the illustrations—vivid and detailed renderings of shrubs and small trees, all sporting broad leaves, drooping, trumpetlike white or yellow flowers, and large, smooth, podlike fruit—and jumped into Chapter Three.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • I flipped through the illustrations—vivid and detailed renderings of shrubs and small trees, all sporting broad leaves, drooping, trumpetlike white or yellow flowers, and large, smooth, podlike fruit—and jumped into Chapter Three.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • I flipped through the illustrations—vivid and detailed renderings of shrubs and small trees, all sporting broad leaves, drooping, trumpetlike white or yellow flowers, and large, smooth, podlike fruit—and jumped into Chapter Three.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • The whooping crane is a very large and very regal white bird with long black legs, a sinuous neck and a thrilling trumpetlike voice.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

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