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 Pacho Flores was the agile trumpeter, solid in tone throughout his range, brilliant on the cornet and mellow on the flugelhorn. Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023 Bands in the 19th century had a wide range of formats and instrumentation, but all-brass ensembles were very common and often known as cornet bands. Catherine Baty, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023 Calling it a trumpet concerto is perhaps a misnomer: the soloist probably spends more time on cornets or flugelhorn than on the trumpet. Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023 Many of the city’s most interesting artists are peppered through the record, from Ben Lamar Gay on cornet to Ayanna Woods and Sen Morimoto providing saxophone arrangements. Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021 See All Example Sentences for cornet
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Noun
  • Equity bears are growling, and bulls are sharpening their horns.
    Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 17 June 2025
  • In Western art, a man on a horse is a classic format representing a hero, but here Davis sits a young Black man astride a mythic unicorn — notably white — its buttery beige horn shining amid the painting’s otherwise neutral palette.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Its off-size pre-rolls come in stylish green or white tins and tubes, while its charitable arm, the Bailey Legacy Fund, supports local animal rescues.
    Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Serum tubes with blood samples from patients are processed in the central medical laboratory of the St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025

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“Cornet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornet. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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