foghorn

Example Sentences

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To the human ear, the hum might sound like a single note on a French horn or a foghorn.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

For now, no one’s blowing the foghorn warning.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream.

From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023

If the gulls can learn to accept the foghorn, I guess I can, too.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2023

He came ter yer house an’ — an’ — ” Hagrid suddenly pulled out a very dirty, spotted handkerchief and blew his nose with a sound like a foghorn.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling