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Use "bandsmen" in a sentence
"Extra Billy Smith had his "tooting fellows," as he called his bandsmen, play "Yankee Doodle" as he proceeded in his triumph through the streets of York on June 28."
"Extra Billy Smith had his “tooting fellows,” as he called his bandsmen, play “Yankee Doodle” as he proceeded in his triumph through the streets of York on June 28."
"I gathered that the 'bandsmen' were not orchestra players but groups of hijackers, burglars or highwaymen, terrorizing unpatrolled regions, resorting to senseless outrages of destruction in property and human life."