How to Use fife in a Sentence

fife

noun

• The parade will include marching bands, fife and drum corps.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al.com, 19 June 2019
• She had been abducted while walking home from practice with her school’s fife-and-drum team in 1968.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2021
• His wooden flutes, fifes and whistles are still being played by fifers and folk musicians around the world.
  — courant.com, 21 June 2019
• As a heritage grain, Blackwell says that red fife has held a long history in Canada.
  — Tiffany Leigh, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2017
• Instruction is provided for fife, snare and bass drum as well as marching.
  — Courant Community, 3 Apr. 2018
• The event includes marching bands, fife and drum corps, floats, military units, giant balloons, equestrian, drill teams and more.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• The fife and drum corps is missing in action (because blowing air is a no-no), but new walking tours have been introduced to keep guests warm outside by moving around.
  — Vicky Hallett, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• Fife (2-2) worked six innings for the third consecutive start, struck out five without issuing a walk and limited the Bees to just two unearned runs.
  — NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
• The museum holds a number of artifacts from the Willard era, including a drum used as a model for the original painting and a fife from the same period.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Marching bands, fife and drum corps, floats, military units, giant balloons, equestrian, drill teams and more.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al.com, 4 July 2019
• Reenactors dressed in Revolutionary War uniforms fired salutes, and a fife and drum corps played music.
  — Dorvall Bedford, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• American fife and drum blues has been popular in the hill country of Mississippi and Tennessee for decades.
  — Lici Beveridge, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2021
• There was cannon fire, fife troupes populated with high school band students, and long orations about the importance of remembering the past.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
• Beginning at noon, the Colchester Continentals participated in a parade and muster with other fife and drums corps from around the state.
  — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• In 1778, during the Revolutionary War, a group of soldiers surprised their commander in chief by playing fife and drums outside his quarters at Valley Forge.
  — Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• Its roots predate the academy itself, going back to the fife players and drummers serving as field musicians since George Washington established an Army post here in 1778.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• Calvin Jackson was an innovator, known for incorporating fife and drum blues as well as funk and soul into hill country blues for a musical signature that was his own.
  — Lici Beveridge, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2021
• On a recent Saturday, wedding parties filed onto the lawn of the south facade awaiting their photo op, while colonial re-enactors marched nearby, accompanied by fife and drum, and groups of tourists milled about.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2017
• For the first official state visit of his presidency, Mr. Trump hosted a traditional arrival ceremony on the South Lawn, complete with military bands, color guards, a fife-and-drum corps and a 21-gun salute.
  — Peter Baker and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• Visitors also can enjoy games, historic cannon fire, a traditional fife and drum parade and food concessions.
  — Lauryn Azu, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024