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
Whistles, horns or other noise makers.
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Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Bryan Fuller would love to see Zendaya go from swinging with everyone's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to locking horns with his favorite cannibalistic serial killer.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
Their name comes from the unique protrusions on their back that resemble horns and serve as a defense mechanism against predators including other sharks, elephant seals and some large fish.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Others say those who upgrade to loud horns just want to show off.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
The ears of a young ram are more noticeable than those of an old ram, whose ears are largely concealed by the massive horns.
—Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Viral posts present them as a lost civilization’s handiwork; geologists call them nunataks, mountain summits standing above the ice, and, in some cases, glacial horns whose sharp faces were sculpted by erosion.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Noise-making devices, including whistles and air horns.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
The Spirit Pearl was then reincarnated as Ao Bing, a dragon who also has a human form with shampoo-commercial-ready hair and small horns.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Bryan Fuller would love to see Zendaya go from swinging with everyone's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to locking horns with his favorite cannibalistic serial killer.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
Their name comes from the unique protrusions on their back that resemble horns and serve as a defense mechanism against predators including other sharks, elephant seals and some large fish.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Others say those who upgrade to loud horns just want to show off.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
The ears of a young ram are more noticeable than those of an old ram, whose ears are largely concealed by the massive horns.
—Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Viral posts present them as a lost civilization’s handiwork; geologists call them nunataks, mountain summits standing above the ice, and, in some cases, glacial horns whose sharp faces were sculpted by erosion.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Noise-making devices, including whistles and air horns.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
The Spirit Pearl was then reincarnated as Ao Bing, a dragon who also has a human form with shampoo-commercial-ready hair and small horns.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
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But now European and American scientists are exploring whether the first human Martians could find refuge via dormant volcanos scattered across the Red Planet, inside lava tubes that criss-cross the Mars underground.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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There’s the laughing loft and the wacky tubes.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
9 Sep. 2025
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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 16 Sep. 2025.
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