as in tube
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container
musketeers carrying their gunpowder in powder horns
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Recent Examples of horn
The creatures stood on four legs, and boasted huge heads adorned with three horns, a distinctive bony frill and a prominent nose bump.
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Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Blaring horns, rattling sound makers and nonstop cheers filled the stadium as Byron Nelson (25-10-1) powered to a 4-2 victory on Thursday, May 15 at Byron Nelson High School.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2025
Ramona Space Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden The psychedelic Mexican indie rock band Ramona, which includes a horn player, is at Space Ballroom on May 17 at 8 p.m. $32.34, $26.69 in advance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
At that the rest of the herd formed a tight circle around him with heads lowered and horns pointing outward.
—Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025
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Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Blaring horns, rattling sound makers and nonstop cheers filled the stadium as Byron Nelson (25-10-1) powered to a 4-2 victory on Thursday, May 15 at Byron Nelson High School.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 May 2025
Ramona Space Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden The psychedelic Mexican indie rock band Ramona, which includes a horn player, is at Space Ballroom on May 17 at 8 p.m. $32.34, $26.69 in advance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
At that the rest of the herd formed a tight circle around him with heads lowered and horns pointing outward.
—Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horn
Noun
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The team is taking this tack because Perseverance is getting low on unsealed tubes and still has a lot of intriguing ground to cover.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Hudson joined a family of musicians: his father played flute, drums, cornet and the saxophone, performing regularly in local dance bands, while his mother was a vocalist, who also played the accordion and piano.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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In the late-aughts, at the restaurant French Laundry, in Yountville, California, Lena Kwak was tasked with finding a gluten-free alternative to the restaurant's iconic salmon cornets—small, crunchy wafer cones filled with salmon tartare to signal the beginning of the meal.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appétit,
15 Mar. 2024
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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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