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View definitions for foghorn

foghorn

noun as in warning signal

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Weak match

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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.

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Fellow whale songs, murmuring currents, the occasional foghorn, perhaps.

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He has the issues, he has the money and he can show solid constituent service – if he can cut through the foghorn bombast of Donald Trump.

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That night it rained and the light station’s modern foghorn sounded every 30 seconds, as it routinely does from October to April.

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To the human ear, the hum might sound like a single note on a French horn or a foghorn.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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