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  • noun Plural form of sousaphone.

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Examples

  • In fact, I'm sure the good doctor took it upon himself to give Donato money not to further his own interests, but because he recognized Donato's already-present-but-inchoate concern over the same insidious sousaphones.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • In fact, I'm sure the good doctor took it upon himself to give Donato money not to further his own interests, but because he recognized Donato's already-present-but-inchoate concern over the same insidious sousaphones.

    Infirmary Blues Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • We're talking five or six football fields worth of the newest guitars, amps, basses, drums, mikes, keyboards, sousaphones, electric oboes - think Guitar Center cranked up to 11.

    Wired Top Stories 2010

  • He will tell us how all the spirited black people used to march behind men with giant sousaphones, as we are served heavily breaded fried shrimp, harvested fresh from Ore-Ida bags, with a ketchup remoulade.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • I turned off my office light so I could see what was going on in the dark and looked out and saw 4 guys running with sousaphones.

    How outrageous would it be for a professor to eat during class? Ann Althouse 2008

  • After it was over and once the NinjaBaker was through gawking at the sight of a group of sousaphones getting onto an elevator, contemplating the amazing experience of listening to them play in that confined space we turned our footsies to the north and mosied up Broad Street.

    Archive 2008-12-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • And we have to start marching right this minute, so grab your sousaphones, kids.

    The Pyramid and the Net 2008

  • After it was over and once the NinjaBaker was through gawking at the sight of a group of sousaphones getting onto an elevator, contemplating the amazing experience of listening to them play in that confined space we turned our footsies to the north and mosied up Broad Street.

    The Unbearable Lowness of Brass 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • They were playing patriotic music now, a medley of familiar marches with drum ruffles and sousaphones, and the curtain descended halfway, recontoured in flag format and starred and striped by colored floods, and just as the audience began to wonder what the point was, out came the Rockettes, what a toothsome shock—did anyone know there was a stage show in the works?

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They were playing patriotic music now, a medley of familiar marches with drum ruffles and sousaphones, and the curtain descended halfway, recontoured in flag format and starred and striped by colored floods, and just as the audience began to wonder what the point was, out came the Rockettes, what a toothsome shock—did anyone know there was a stage show in the works?

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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