How to Use horn in a Sentence

horn

noun
  • Allen would see him out on the porch, blare a horn and wave.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The text is laid over the image of a man in red face paint with horns.
    Molly Taft, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, train horns will help keep people safe, Wong said.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The nocturnal birds have tufts on their heads that look like horns or ears.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Neighbors heard Jackson screaming and tried to scare the bear off him with shouts and car horns.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 22 June 2023
  • People waved flags, crowds chanted and clapped, and cars honked their horns.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Manning was on the sideline Saturday and was full horns up in the postgame playing of The Eyes of Texas.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Ching also sent the source photos of rhino horns that were for sale.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The popular ride-on toy is low to the ground and bouncy, with horns that are easy for little hands to grip.
    Taryn Mohrman, wsj.com, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Classic horn buttons and a wider lapel make for a more formal look.
    Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 28 June 2023
  • Choose between rainbow clouds or unicorns with horns and ears that stick out of the box.
    Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Still, from his horns and tattoos to the double-bladed lightsaber, Maul's bad-guy chic was hard to beat.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • Traffic, horns, people rushing around us, the clunk of tires over the streetcar tracks.
    USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • The sounds of drums and horns filled the air in front of the Natural History Museum, where a crowd lined both sides of the street.
    Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • An onslaught of spring rain, which delayed the start of the race, and the chorus of blaring yacht horns that signaled its end.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • By some accounts, the creature appears as a four-legged lizard with a long neck and a single horn.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • My horn has had to go into the shop a couple of times after banging into the neck of his bass.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Wearing a unicorn horn and a pink, blue and purple tutu, Mia smiles in front of a pile of presents.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Short, rounded horns sprouted from its head, small wings from its back.
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024
  • San Diego Union-Tribune Does honking your car horn count as free speech?
    Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Rice Park: With full horn and rhythm sections, this big-band is coming back to the carnival.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024
  • On his live stream from the city, Hall can be heard honking his horn, trying to warn people of what was coming.
    Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • When the final horn sounded, there was a slew of punches thrown, a bunch of bodies driven into the ice.
    Tim Reynolds, ajc, 11 June 2023
  • Several Jewish men blew a shofar, the ram’s horn used on Rosh Hashana.
    Somini Sengupta, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • One of the deputies ordered her to pull over and cited her for misusing her car horn, according to the suit.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The agency shared a photo of the animal — a brown bull with white horns — lounging in the middle of the tracks near the edge of a railway station.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Just throw on a black maxi, a matching jacket, and DIY yourself some horns (or buy them on Amazon).
    Kia Goosby, Seventeen, 15 June 2023
  • Neighbors heard his screams for help amid the struggle and tried to scare the bear away by yelling and honking horns, but to no avail, officials said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 June 2023
  • The air horn sounded again at 4:22 p.m. as another set of storms arrived, bringing heavy rains and the threat of lightning.
    CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Not just frosting on the cake and background riffs, like is typical with what horn sections do.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024

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