as in horn
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container
cornets of pastry dough that were baked and later filled with cream
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Recent Examples of cornet
While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets.
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IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
Flanking him, a cornet player and a percussionist bounced to the rhythm.
—Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon, New York Times, 24 July 2025
Hudson joined a family of musicians: his father played flute, drums, cornet and the saxophone, performing regularly in local dance bands, while his mother was a vocalist, who also played the accordion and piano.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2025
In the late-aughts, at the restaurant French Laundry, in Yountville, California, Lena Kwak was tasked with finding a gluten-free alternative to the restaurant's iconic salmon cornets—small, crunchy wafer cones filled with salmon tartare to signal the beginning of the meal.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
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IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
Flanking him, a cornet player and a percussionist bounced to the rhythm.
—Ben Miller Laetitia Vançon, New York Times, 24 July 2025
Hudson joined a family of musicians: his father played flute, drums, cornet and the saxophone, performing regularly in local dance bands, while his mother was a vocalist, who also played the accordion and piano.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2025
In the late-aughts, at the restaurant French Laundry, in Yountville, California, Lena Kwak was tasked with finding a gluten-free alternative to the restaurant's iconic salmon cornets—small, crunchy wafer cones filled with salmon tartare to signal the beginning of the meal.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cornet
Noun
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Car horns were still beeping in Bogota on Monday morning in celebration of Abelardo de la Espriella’s win in Colombia’s presidential election.—
Catherine Ellis,
Miami Herald,
22 June 2026
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Chicago, meanwhile, had singer-keyboardist Robert Lamm, and the three-man horn section of Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, and Walter Parazaider from the founding in 1967 until 2018.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
20 June 2026
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Create Seedling Pots DIY seedling pots are super easy to make from cardboard paper towel tubes by bending in the base of the tube to create a solid bottom and filling it with soil.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 June 2026
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Some tube feeders are weight-sensitive to deter larger birds and squirrels.—
Abby Fribush,
Southern Living,
18 June 2026
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“Cornet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornet. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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