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
This year, graduate workers who are on strike picketed in Harvard Yard, blaring vuvuzela horns, drums and cowbells whenever an administrator spoke.
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Michael Casey, Fortune, 29 May 2026
And a brewery owner said the train horns are so loud now that all conversation stops in the brewery when the trains go by.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026
The honk of car horns disappears along with the diesel churn of trucks.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The bigger question was whether the La Familia fans, who staged a silent protest last week, would be back with their drums, horns, banners and chants.
—Miami Herald, 25 May 2026
Abiding by the pajama dress code, the mom-to-be was sporting red loungewear and a matching fuzzy devil horns tiara for the meal.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
Congas, bongos, and a Creole conch shell sit alongside guitar, keyboards, and horns.
—Steve Appleford, SPIN, 18 May 2026
The kiss cams and sing-alongs and air horns and thunder sticks are all integrated into the game, not reserved for stoppages in play.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Charlie Chaplin mimicking devil horns.
—Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
Michael Casey, Fortune, 29 May 2026
And a brewery owner said the train horns are so loud now that all conversation stops in the brewery when the trains go by.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026
The honk of car horns disappears along with the diesel churn of trucks.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The bigger question was whether the La Familia fans, who staged a silent protest last week, would be back with their drums, horns, banners and chants.
—Miami Herald, 25 May 2026
Abiding by the pajama dress code, the mom-to-be was sporting red loungewear and a matching fuzzy devil horns tiara for the meal.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
Congas, bongos, and a Creole conch shell sit alongside guitar, keyboards, and horns.
—Steve Appleford, SPIN, 18 May 2026
The kiss cams and sing-alongs and air horns and thunder sticks are all integrated into the game, not reserved for stoppages in play.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Charlie Chaplin mimicking devil horns.
—Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
Noun
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The new generators packed in many more tubes, which led to quicker wear, which led to a leak of radioactive steam.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
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Khanna’s second stop on the trip was JM Steel in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, a plant turning hulking steel coils into solar tracker tubes for the company Nextpower.—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
28 May 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 7 Jun. 2026.
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