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
Ready For a Challenge A figure designated as Fate here shadows Carmen, sweeping the floor with a ruffled train and sporting a skull mask, the golden horns of a bull at the end of his arms.
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Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
Conrad and Maeve lock horns over Eddie but agree on a plan B.
Episode Four: Harry pays a visit to Antoine at the urging of Bella.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
This uncertainty is something else encouraging consumers to pull in their horns.
—The Editors, National Review, 1 May 2025
Pair Modern With Traditional In this home, new-wave elements like the acrylic light fixture are paired with Old-World aesthetics like the deer-print runner and decorative horn piece.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
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Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
Conrad and Maeve lock horns over Eddie but agree on a plan B.
Episode Four: Harry pays a visit to Antoine at the urging of Bella.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
This uncertainty is something else encouraging consumers to pull in their horns.
—The Editors, National Review, 1 May 2025
Pair Modern With Traditional In this home, new-wave elements like the acrylic light fixture are paired with Old-World aesthetics like the deer-print runner and decorative horn piece.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horn
Noun
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The team is taking this tack because Perseverance is getting low on unsealed tubes and still has a lot of intriguing ground to cover.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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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
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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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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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