foghorn
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 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
Far to the north a foghorn groaned, reaching them less as a sound than as a trembling in their bellies, as if their bodies were pipes in a somber old organ.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
