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 The Bay Area sextet featured Stone on keyboards, Larry Graham on bass, Stone's brother Freddie on guitar, sister Rose on vocals, plus Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini on horns and Greg Errico on drums. Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025 These sheep have curled horns that can weigh up to 30 pounds alone. Morgan Tilton, Denver Post, 8 June 2025 Two bulls, each weighing over 1,300 pounds, ram heads and jab horns as their muscles ripple under velvety coats. Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 7 June 2025 Porsche had to fully cover the wheels and install a horn as well. Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for horn
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Noun
  • Its off-size pre-rolls come in stylish green or white tins and tubes, while its charitable arm, the Bailey Legacy Fund, supports local animal rescues.
    Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Serum tubes with blood samples from patients are processed in the central medical laboratory of the St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 30 Jun. 2025.

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