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
On a main avenue in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city, taxi drivers honked their horns and bus drivers parked their vehicles to protest rising fuel costs.
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Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
The bluebuck had a shiny blue-grey coat, striking horns, a unique facial pattern, and, compared to other antelope relatives, was smaller, standing at about four feet tall at the shoulder with horns reaching nearly two feet.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Nearly six months after meeting at Parc des Princes on matchday four in the Champions League’s league phase, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich lock horns once more in the semi-final.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
The red satin look featured a corseted bodice with a sweetheart neckline and pointed horns at the end of each side.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
My holiday ended in car horns and fumes.
—Menaka Doshi, Bloomberg, 21 Apr. 2026
Every few minutes, the quiet of a muggy spring evening in the Park Glen neighborhood in far north Fort Worth was broken by the clanging of pots, pans, air horns, and other noisemakers as residents looked skyward at unwanted guests.
—Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
As survivors watch lawmakers lock horns over the Iran war and the record-long Department of Homeland Security shutdown, some worry extending disaster tax relief will be de-prioritized.
—ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Ruff locked horns a few times with Bruins team president Cam Neely.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
The bluebuck had a shiny blue-grey coat, striking horns, a unique facial pattern, and, compared to other antelope relatives, was smaller, standing at about four feet tall at the shoulder with horns reaching nearly two feet.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
Nearly six months after meeting at Parc des Princes on matchday four in the Champions League’s league phase, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich lock horns once more in the semi-final.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
The red satin look featured a corseted bodice with a sweetheart neckline and pointed horns at the end of each side.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
My holiday ended in car horns and fumes.
—Menaka Doshi, Bloomberg, 21 Apr. 2026
Every few minutes, the quiet of a muggy spring evening in the Park Glen neighborhood in far north Fort Worth was broken by the clanging of pots, pans, air horns, and other noisemakers as residents looked skyward at unwanted guests.
—Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
As survivors watch lawmakers lock horns over the Iran war and the record-long Department of Homeland Security shutdown, some worry extending disaster tax relief will be de-prioritized.
—ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Ruff locked horns a few times with Bruins team president Cam Neely.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
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Lateral deformation and bowing can impact the placement and performance of fuel, and the monobloc construction of these tubes is designed to mitigate those issues.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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Even in the more modern setting, the dainty designs on the plastic tubes and metal tins convey the history of the product within.—
Gabriella Fine,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Apr. 2026
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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 3 May. 2026.
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