as in tube
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container
musketeers carrying their gunpowder in powder horns
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Recent Examples of horn
Here, her grief is cradled by lo-fi fuzz and limber, distant horns.
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Maria Nenet Barrios,
Pitchfork,
18 June 2026
Some streets in Guadalajara were filled with drivers honking horns and fans chanting and waving Mexican flags.
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ABC News,
18 June 2026
As the band suggested, Parazaider was a key part of the group’s sound, with the Chicago’s jazzy horn section arguably its signature feature.
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Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
Cars honked their horns and cyclists pulled over to tune in as flags fluttered in the wind, fans clambered to see the screen, and people hugged and shouted.
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Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for horn
Maria Nenet Barrios,
Pitchfork,
18 June 2026
Some streets in Guadalajara were filled with drivers honking horns and fans chanting and waving Mexican flags.
—
ABC News,
18 June 2026
As the band suggested, Parazaider was a key part of the group’s sound, with the Chicago’s jazzy horn section arguably its signature feature.
—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
Cars honked their horns and cyclists pulled over to tune in as flags fluttered in the wind, fans clambered to see the screen, and people hugged and shouted.
—
Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for horn
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horn
Noun
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Drivers wear vests which pump cooling liquid through a network of tubes, linked to pumping equipment inside the car.
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The characters have little time to make life-or-death decisions, let alone ruminate, and the action vacillates between triage and doctors expertly improvising solutions — like Mel (Taylor Dearden) donating her own blood, and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) going MacGyver mode with a tracheal tube.
Noun
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In 1914 the family moved to Little Rock, where Powell sang in high school productions and learned to play several instruments including the cornet, clarinet and saxophone.
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Nevertheless, Gadson’s father, Harold, bought him and his brother, Thomas, cornets to play in their school’s drum and bugle corps, Gadson recalled in author Jim Payne’s The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul.
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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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