hornlike
Example Sentences
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The creature burrows four inches below ground, secretes unusual chemicals and is blind, relying on hornlike antennas protruding from its head to find its way.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Meantime, her guitars and synths often aspire to airy, smeary, hornlike communication, and even the drums, for all their tidiness, consistently speak in umphs and hisses.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2022
In her luxurious, hornlike voice, we can hear the woman Claire once was, and all the dark roads she’s travelled since, while hoping against hope that someone would find her beautiful, irreplaceable, different. ♦
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2015
Her austere piano ballad, with Mr. West’s voice computer-tuned into a melody, gives way to a dirge driven by repeated hornlike notes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2013
He takes Hassan’s hand first, strokes the palm with one hornlike fingernail, round and round, round and round.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
