Example Sentences

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“I want to be able to just make people laugh through dance without it being too, like, honk, honk,” she told me, mimicking a schlocky comedian with an airhorn.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

On a warm Wednesday evening, Richard Bauarschi stands in a Fullerton park-and-ride lot right off the 5 Freeway and blows an airhorn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2018

And any song that makes use of an airhorn is immediately on its way to greatness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2017

Dreamy guitars with gospel claps, pitched dancehall airhorn with baby voices, tribal rhythms with disco orch hits, funky bass with a lot of distortion.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2013

Arrested Development gave conscious rap its biggest UK hit; the rave nation was represented by the Shamen and Rage, who gave an old Bryan Adams hit the full siren and airhorn treatment.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2012