foghorn

Example Sentences

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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

Kinstler, however, is not a foghorn writer; she is a cross-examiner leaping in from multiple sides, probing, flipping, slicing, exposing shades of gray.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

Her voice exploded through the peaceful night air like a foghorn; behind him, Harry heard Fleur and Roger fall out of their rosebush.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling