Thesaurus results for HORN

horn

noun

ˈhȯrn

Definition of horn

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 As energy continually ramps upward, the score by Maxim Lany and Jonas Nuttin moves from ominous horns to pulsing electronica, with some neat incorporation of prayer-call-like motifs underlining the hero’s Muslim faith. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026 After the Mexican secured his podium atop Alpe d’Huez on Saturday, Pogačar pointed his fingers upwards on either side of his head to make horns — Del Toro, the bull. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 July 2026 The air is full of the sounds of hundreds of conversations, the crackling of potato chip bags and the beeping horns of trams that race by with passengers who are running late. — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 25 July 2026 On the side of the highway, the night is a cacophony of blaring horns and the shouts of drunken men. — ABC News, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for horn

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Noun

Scientists held an absorbent plastic tube near a mole rat for about half an hour to pick up the volatile molecules coming off its body.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
Workers also had to remove more cabling than planned to install the new launch tubes, which added extra work and delayed the schedule.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 July 2026

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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
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