as in tubes
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 horns
But any noise-making devices such as vuvuzelas, air horns and whistles will be confiscated.
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Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
In Beirut, cars were draped in banners of Moroccan red and green, while in Algiers horns honked in jubilation.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
Pedestrians swerve between packs of police, horns honk at teenagers blocking the street, neon restaurant signs glow.
—Taylor Swinton, Washington Post, 11 June 2026
Continuing the sports metaphor, the trio and their backing band treated the stage like a basketball court or soccer pitch, with some additional horns and bassists playing off of each other like a seasoned team.
—Jake Harris
june 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 June 2026
If threatened by a predator, these creatures can use their horns, which can grow to be over five feet long, to confront other animals and protect themselves.
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Often mixed in to the beat are noisemakers like matracas – wooden objects in the shape of flags that produce a loud clacking sound when spun – and plastic horns called cornetas, which fans use to keep the matches animated from start to finish.
—Michael Rios, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats.
—ArsTechnica, 7 June 2026
Cars and trucks piled into the roundabout, horns blaring.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Laurence Miedema, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
In Beirut, cars were draped in banners of Moroccan red and green, while in Algiers horns honked in jubilation.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
Pedestrians swerve between packs of police, horns honk at teenagers blocking the street, neon restaurant signs glow.
—Taylor Swinton, Washington Post, 11 June 2026
Continuing the sports metaphor, the trio and their backing band treated the stage like a basketball court or soccer pitch, with some additional horns and bassists playing off of each other like a seasoned team.
—Jake Harris
june 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 June 2026
If threatened by a predator, these creatures can use their horns, which can grow to be over five feet long, to confront other animals and protect themselves.
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Often mixed in to the beat are noisemakers like matracas – wooden objects in the shape of flags that produce a loud clacking sound when spun – and plastic horns called cornetas, which fans use to keep the matches animated from start to finish.
—Michael Rios, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats.
—ArsTechnica, 7 June 2026
Cars and trucks piled into the roundabout, horns blaring.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
Noun
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Medical materials were also found on the scene, including tubes, microscope slides and potential hospital records, per TVP World.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
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Drawing from a well dug on the property, a solar hot water collection tank pulls water through a series of tubes heated by the sun, which then flows into a simple electric water heater.—
Noah Daly,
Idaho Statesman,
13 June 2026
Noun
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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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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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“Horns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horns. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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