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
For now, no one’s blowing the foghorn warning.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 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
Big old foghorn seems to be getting closer.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
