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Recent Examples of honk
The honk of strident organ music would punctuate moments of tension.
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Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.
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Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Noticing and tracking timing of annual events Phenology is the study of these natural phenomena and their annual cycles, from the first springtime peek of a groundhog to the last autumn honk of a goose.
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Steven Sullivan,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
Cheers erupt from the sidelines, and a vuvuzela sounds its long, gooselike honk.
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Ryan Lenora Brown,
Christian Science Monitor,
13 May 2025
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Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.
—
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Noticing and tracking timing of annual events Phenology is the study of these natural phenomena and their annual cycles, from the first springtime peek of a groundhog to the last autumn honk of a goose.
—
Steven Sullivan,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
Cheers erupt from the sidelines, and a vuvuzela sounds its long, gooselike honk.
—
Ryan Lenora Brown,
Christian Science Monitor,
13 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for honk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for honk
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Guests range from ordinary commuters to figures like Cate Blanchett and Julian Casablancas, all subject to the same fluorescent lighting and ambient subway screech.
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Native to North America, eastern screech-owls are mostly gray, reddish-brown or brown with yellow eyes, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.
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The pair began to exchange words early in the second half, cracking the type of crooked smiles that hardly concealed the competitiveness driving both players to chirp and ridicule and needle one another on both ends of the court.
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Stephanie says, between a bark and a chirp.
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In response, the paddlers near the front of the canoe momentarily pause their paddling and squeal as the sea lion splashes them.
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These threatened and endangered species are gentle, curious, and squeal-inducing levels of adorable, making a rare sighting all the more special and memorable.
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Air traffic control at Heathrow cleared the flight for a priority return after the pilots issued a squawk 7700 — the code for a general emergency.
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He was missed — especially vocally — since Gill’s angelic voice does not, in any way shape or form, resemble Walsh’s charmingly out-of-pitch squawk-talk style.
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Jimson weed is a flowering plant in the nightshade family known by a variety of additional common names, including thorn apple, devil's snare, or devil's trumpet.
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The house kept the white surface densely beaded and concentrated the softness at the lower skirt, where wispy feathers turned the otherwise clean column into a textural, trumpet shape.
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Gratitude on a stage has rarely seemed more palpable than in Williams basking in the glow of the arena roar; here is someone who, in the spirit of Dylan and the actual words of Doe, has been beyond and back.
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Video taken from Vestavia Hills, a community in central Alabama, showed brown floodwater inundating local streets amid the roar of rain.
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The vocal repertoire consisted of at least seven different squeak types.
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Others reported a persistent squeak.
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Don’t forget my sister’s advice: Ample space to run, roam, and cluck freely is the key to keeping happy, healthy chickens that lay daily.
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In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.
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“Honk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honk. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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