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
The trumpets lend a romantic, even sensual touch to this anthem of desperate love, complemented by the vocals of Ricardo Yocupicio and Geovanni Mondragón and the rest of the instrumentation, which includes the essential tuba, clarinets, and horns.
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Luisa Calle, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
The distributor has locked horns with nearly a half-dozen network parents in 2025, with a deadline looming Thursday night with Disney.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
Whistles, horns or other noise makers.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
The outlet published photographs of first responders gathered around a scene on a Brazilian street, as well as an image of a white cow with horns and blood stained on its coat.
—Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
The cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) makes rabbits grow real horns made of keratin, mostly on their heads but sometimes on their faces.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
For instance, the baby Yutyranous is squatter and fluffier than its parents, while the baby Triceratops has stouter, blunter horns.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
As peaceful demonstrations broke up at Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza Saturday afternoon, protesters began marching along Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and chanting to a chorus of blaring car horns.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
Joy’s voice sits inside a rich octet, where horns and piano converse like old friends.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2025
Luisa Calle, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
The distributor has locked horns with nearly a half-dozen network parents in 2025, with a deadline looming Thursday night with Disney.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
Whistles, horns or other noise makers.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
The outlet published photographs of first responders gathered around a scene on a Brazilian street, as well as an image of a white cow with horns and blood stained on its coat.
—Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
The cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) makes rabbits grow real horns made of keratin, mostly on their heads but sometimes on their faces.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
For instance, the baby Yutyranous is squatter and fluffier than its parents, while the baby Triceratops has stouter, blunter horns.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
As peaceful demonstrations broke up at Mill Creek Park near the Country Club Plaza Saturday afternoon, protesters began marching along Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and chanting to a chorus of blaring car horns.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
Joy’s voice sits inside a rich octet, where horns and piano converse like old friends.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
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According to Buder, who also works as an engineer at Vielo, the aircraft-grade carbon tubes were first cleaned and cut to size, then bonded using an epoxy-carbon composite.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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The outlet also revisited Cheney’s justification for the Iraq War, citing his claims about aluminum tubes allegedly linked to nuclear weapons development.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 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 8 Nov. 2025.
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