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
Cars passed, some beeping their horns.
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David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Whistles, horns or other noise makers.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Browse the Collection The Kalahari gemsbok or giant oryx is a big tough antelope about the size of a spike bull elk and with long, straight, very sharp horns.
—Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
The air is thick with the smell of exhaust fumes and the noise of radios, people’s chatter and moto taxis beeping their horns.
—Sarah Dean, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Boomer and Sooner at Oklahoma don’t come with horns.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
Drivers leaned on their horns as union members — many of whom were wearing blue WGAW T-shirts– marched back and forth in front of the main entrance.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
It was mostly composed of only one skull bone instead of the two bones seen in later species and largely lacked the knobby horns that other pachycephalosaurs had as ornamentation.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
The sounds of nature can be much more calming than artificial sounds like TV sets and traffic horns, but bring along ear plugs in case noisy neighbors tend to keep you up at night.
—Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Whistles, horns or other noise makers.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Browse the Collection The Kalahari gemsbok or giant oryx is a big tough antelope about the size of a spike bull elk and with long, straight, very sharp horns.
—Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
The air is thick with the smell of exhaust fumes and the noise of radios, people’s chatter and moto taxis beeping their horns.
—Sarah Dean, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Boomer and Sooner at Oklahoma don’t come with horns.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
Drivers leaned on their horns as union members — many of whom were wearing blue WGAW T-shirts– marched back and forth in front of the main entrance.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
It was mostly composed of only one skull bone instead of the two bones seen in later species and largely lacked the knobby horns that other pachycephalosaurs had as ornamentation.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
The sounds of nature can be much more calming than artificial sounds like TV sets and traffic horns, but bring along ear plugs in case noisy neighbors tend to keep you up at night.
—Laura Kiniry, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
Noun
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Such tubes are supposed to be brought to Earth for study by NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission campaign.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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In total, approximately 4,500 Marines and sailors are deployed, supported by a cruiser, several destroyers, and a Los Angeles-class attack submarine equipped with more than 400 missile tubes capable of precision strikes.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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 6 Oct. 2025.
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