foghorn

Example Sentences

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A large fire on a hillside in Inverclyde led to a smoke over Greenock and the Clyde, prompting ships to sound their foghorns.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

I grew up fishing with my dad on Fauntleroy Cove, feasting on fried rockfish and falling asleep to ferryboat foghorns.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Soumya: As part of your reporting, you toured the Golden Gate Bridge’s five foghorns, which typically aren’t open to the public.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022

The sound design is appropriately unsettling, a mix of deafening foghorns, an eerie industrial-sounding score by Mark Korven, and the screeches of circling sea gulls.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2019

I ask, trying to catch my breath as the foghorns sound again.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko