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
Before becoming a real estate agent, Bernasconi previously was an actor and played in a nine-piece horn band.
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Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2026
The stem is executed in ox horn.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2026
The Ballet Orchestra, close to wrapping its 50th anniversary season, sounded especially sonorous in the score’s horn passages.
—Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026
After Hoffman closed out the ninth, Rogers Centre’s horn cathartically blasted.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2026
The stem is executed in ox horn.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2026
The Ballet Orchestra, close to wrapping its 50th anniversary season, sounded especially sonorous in the score’s horn passages.
—Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026
After Hoffman closed out the ninth, Rogers Centre’s horn cathartically blasted.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horn
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The suspects were arrested on March 10 after authorities found them in possession of 1,948 garden ants stored in specialized tubes, along with an additional 300 ants in tissue rolls.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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To clean, connect your extended brush or tube to your vacuum cleaner and use it to collect dust on the fan’s blades and surfaces.—
Emily Benda Gaylord,
The Spruce,
16 Apr. 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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Larkin lifted a shot into the upper left-hand cornet of the net during a four-on-four situation in between DeBrincat's goals.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Nov. 2025
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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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