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
Overnight, workers lined entrances to the refinery holding signs, honking horns, and settling in for around-the-clock picketing.
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Darius Johnson, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Or, as would be more accurate for the genre, a devil gets its horns.
—Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
There were no blaring car horns or subway trains roaring underground.
—Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
Males have spiral horns that are nearly 4 feet tall.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
News and videos on social media showed Iranians cheering, honking horns, and dancing in the streets of Tehran and other cities to celebrate his death—all actions unthinkable days earlier, amid the government’s ongoing and ruthless crackdown on protesters.
—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
As the crowds chanted, cars driving past honked their horns and threw peace signs at protesters.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 1 Mar. 2026
On a busy street in downtown Miami, as horns blare, cars weave past buses discharging passengers and delivery robots bump along the sidewalk, Las Palmas restaurant feeds Miami at an open-air counter.
—Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
Videos shared by anti-regime activist accounts and geolocated by CNN show multiple cars honking their horns surrounded by people out in the streets of the central Iranian city of Isfahan, waving clothes in celebration.
—Kara Fox, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
Darius Johnson, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Or, as would be more accurate for the genre, a devil gets its horns.
—Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
There were no blaring car horns or subway trains roaring underground.
—Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
Males have spiral horns that are nearly 4 feet tall.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
News and videos on social media showed Iranians cheering, honking horns, and dancing in the streets of Tehran and other cities to celebrate his death—all actions unthinkable days earlier, amid the government’s ongoing and ruthless crackdown on protesters.
—Robin Wright, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
As the crowds chanted, cars driving past honked their horns and threw peace signs at protesters.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 1 Mar. 2026
On a busy street in downtown Miami, as horns blare, cars weave past buses discharging passengers and delivery robots bump along the sidewalk, Las Palmas restaurant feeds Miami at an open-air counter.
—Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
Videos shared by anti-regime activist accounts and geolocated by CNN show multiple cars honking their horns surrounded by people out in the streets of the central Iranian city of Isfahan, waving clothes in celebration.
—Kara Fox, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
Noun
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Socks said guests were walking through slush to reach the base area, and crews were adjusting the tubing hill to make sure tubes still made it to the bottom of the track as the snow softened.—
Spencer Wilson,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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The footage showed tubes with ruptures and other damaged structures that used to be inside the pressure vessel, which originally was enclosed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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 23 Mar. 2026.
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