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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This included using technology, sound effects and incorporating horns and string instruments that at the time were not part of the Beatles’ stage show.
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Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Head to the backside of the library, where architects used glass partitioning and rammed earth to nearly soundproof the space from both Caltrain horns and the children’s area.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
As some of his teammates embraced Wiggins on the court after the final horn, Butler dapped up a couple friends courtside and bolted for the locker room.
—Danny Emerman, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
With two foot-long horns protruding from either side of their heads, a large hump resting on their shoulders and folds of loose skin drooping from their neck, these aren’t your typical black-and-white milk carton dairy cows.
—Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2025
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Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Head to the backside of the library, where architects used glass partitioning and rammed earth to nearly soundproof the space from both Caltrain horns and the children’s area.
—Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
As some of his teammates embraced Wiggins on the court after the final horn, Butler dapped up a couple friends courtside and bolted for the locker room.
—Danny Emerman, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
With two foot-long horns protruding from either side of their heads, a large hump resting on their shoulders and folds of loose skin drooping from their neck, these aren’t your typical black-and-white milk carton dairy cows.
—Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Horn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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