foghorn

Example Sentences

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He proposed a new song that celebrates corn, one in which the word corn sounded “like a foghorn,” Clark recalled, and the songwriters were delighted when they realized the giddy, tone-setting result was better.

From New York Times

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