How do you use the word "trumpet" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "trumpet": Will you try to play the trumpet? Ted likes playing the trumpet.

Trumpet Meaning

/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

nounSomeone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.

Sentence Examples

Will you try to play the trumpet?

Ted likes playing the trumpet.

I often heard him playing the melody on the trumpet.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

horn trump cornet

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The musician played a loud note on her shiny brass ____ during the concert.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He practiced playing his ____ every morning to prepare for the upcoming concert with the local school band today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum. Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in." — 1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:

"Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […]." — 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

"I will the banner from a trumpet take" — 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

"That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises." — 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

"The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions." — 1974, O.T.A., Proceedings, page 4:

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