foghorn
Example Sentences
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"A person on board then used the ship's foghorn, waking the animal, which moved to another location."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
People stopped talking and stared up at the boy with the foghorn voice.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
