foghorn
Example Sentences
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Fellow whale songs, murmuring currents, the occasional foghorn, perhaps.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2024
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
He lets out a foghorn sound before he’s told to turn back over.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 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
It was then that he heard a boat not far off, the sound of a foghorn blown deliberately, and he turned his ear in its direction.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
