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 Whistles, horns or other noise makers. Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025 But lately, certain relics—tallow, bay rum, horn combs—have crept back in. Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025 Consultants acknowledged parts of the site already exceed Matthews’ 60-decibel limit because of nearby interstate traffic, wind and train horns. Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025 Cutter Gauthier, Radko Gudas and Frank Vatrano each sounded the goal horn. Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horn
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Noun
  • Holloway Road tube relies on a couple of old elevators to get up and down from the platform and the entrance is on a major road, so there is no obvious place for passengers to queue outside.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, Eucrisa, a drug prescribed to approximately a million American patients with eczema at almost $1,000 a tube, will be offered to Americans at an 80 percent discount—bringing the price under $200.
    Bobby Jindal, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the album, he's backed by Americana favorites including Gabe Witcher on violin (Punch Brothers, Rosanne Cash), Sebastian Steinberg on bass (Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers), and Charles De Castro on accordion and cornet (Keb' Mo').
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
  • While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025

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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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