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
Lines of cars inch forward with flags draped from windows, their horns blaring in rhythm with rousing chants.
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Radier Odhiambo, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2026
Fans marched along the avenues near Paris’ Arc de Triomphe monument, with some setting off flares and blaring car horns.
—ABC News, 31 May 2026
The bull, with a 7½-foot horn span, was sculpted by Johnny Pate and painted by local artists in 2001 as part of the citywide BulLovArts project.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026
This year, graduate workers who are on strike picketed in Harvard Yard, blaring vuvuzela horns, drums and cowbells whenever an administrator spoke.
—Michael Casey, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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Radier Odhiambo, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2026
Fans marched along the avenues near Paris’ Arc de Triomphe monument, with some setting off flares and blaring car horns.
—ABC News, 31 May 2026
The bull, with a 7½-foot horn span, was sculpted by Johnny Pate and painted by local artists in 2001 as part of the citywide BulLovArts project.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026
This year, graduate workers who are on strike picketed in Harvard Yard, blaring vuvuzela horns, drums and cowbells whenever an administrator spoke.
—Michael Casey, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horn
Noun
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These tubes serve as stabilizing cables that allow flexible fibrous trunks to withstand hurricane-force winds.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
4 June 2026
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Humidity is funnelled through tubes and directed toward furniture upholstery infusing it with lasting fragrance.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
4 June 2026
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.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 May 2026
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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.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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