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
His voice has always been a bit of a foghorn — higher or lower according to age, habits and the song at hand — but it has a rare emotional urgency.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023
The protocol among gill-netters in such conditions was to lay on one’s foghorn at one-minute intervals and to keep a sharp ear turned toward the fog on the chance of receiving a reply.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
