foghorn

Example Sentences

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There were few of the well-oiled protest features, including protest marshals, union leaders holding long banners or demonstrators blowing foghorns.

From New York Times

And they have turned Mr. Reddé into a leading character of French demonstrations, a kind of “Where’s Waldo?” who invariably appears alongside unionists blowing foghorns and battalions of armor-clad riot police.

From New York Times

For now, though, the allure of a U.S. job and the life and opportunities that come with it remain a powerful “foghorn” for immigrants “for areas like Silicon Valley and Seattle,” Pedersen said.

From Seattle Times

Kinstler, however, is not a foghorn writer; she is a cross-examiner leaping in from multiple sides, probing, flipping, slicing, exposing shades of gray.

From Washington Post

But what it also does is present the need for foghorns.

From New York Times