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

The entire herd was now looking their direction, making foghorn growls and stamping their hooves.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan