What is "trumpeting"

Usage examples of "trumpeting".

Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.

From deep within the alley Reseda had occupied came a rumbling, trumpeting roar.

Cicero who did the squawking, the horrified trumpeting, the agitated flapping.

I saw the others turn, all trumpeting and squealing, and then Kirby-Smith fired, the crash of his rifle so loud my ears sang with the noise of it.

Trumpeting and squealing, the huge animals waded through living bodies, crushing them under-foot, lifting men in their trunks and flinging them towards the sky.

Yet those who borrow the most from the French, are the most forward in trumpeting the poverty of that language, very likely thinking that such an accusation justifies their depredations.

Another thunderflash, followed by squeals, and the sound of trumpeting and of men yelling and beating on the sides of their trucks, the engines coming nearer.

The Land-Rover had turned again, the sound of it over-laid by squeals and trumpeting.

Trucks were moving on the sand slopes beyond and we heard the distant sound of men yelling, banging on door panels, horns blaring, followed by squeals and trumpeting -a terrible hunting-cry noise that ripped the peaceful stillness of that lakeside dawn to shreds.

With a silent prayer to their totems as the frightened, trumpeting, gigantic animal stampeded toward them, the brave young men raced into the face of the charging mammoth waving smoky torches in front of them.

One held torn and ragged folds of the veil ripped from her throat, the other the weapon with which she had cheated death: a bronze paperweight, probably a miniature copy of a Barye, an elephant trumpeting.

If it were some favorite food thieved from the kitchen, for example, it would elicit a description of a meal at the House Absolute, and the kind of food I brought even governed the nature of the repast described: flesh, a sporting dinner with the shrieking and trumpeting of game caught alive drifting up from the abattoir below and much talk of brachets, hawks, and hunting leopards.

The wings rose behind him with spectacular trumpetings and dartings so that there appeared to be thousands of dragons in the air instead of the scant two hundred Benden Weyr boasted.

Sean’s cry of triumph was lost in the trumpeting of eighteen dragons and who knew how many fire-dragonets!

Emitting shrill, trumpeting cries, it began to rear and pitch like a bee-stung stallion.