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
People stopped talking and stared up at the boy with the foghorn voice.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
