How to Use foghorn in a Sentence

foghorn

noun
  • Promptly, with one short blast of the foghorn, the boat lurched under his feet.
    — Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • After each play, his voice is a ceaseless foghorn as he smack-talks and laughs in opponents’ faces.
    — Jourdan Rodrigue, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The lightkeepers of yore almost went mad from cabin fever and constant foghorns.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Whistles, horns, foghorns, airhorns, plastic horns or other noise makers.
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Whistles, horns, foghorns, airhorns, plastic horns or other noise makers.
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The trailer begins with the dark scene of an ocean with a lighthouse shining and foghorn blaring to the distance.
    — Lily Rosenberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2019
  • Even the diesel-guzzling megayachts blew their foghorns in celebration.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2013
  • There's that homicidal frog/foreboding foghorn/evil tuba again.
    — Meredith Bodgas, Woman's Day, 29 July 2015
  • Some protesters used stilts, music, flares and foghorns to amplify their message.
    — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The bellow of a foghorn can be deafening, or even more dangerous, to people nearby.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The name Cecil the Lion, on the other hand, probably sounds like a foghorn.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2017
  • McVie had a foghorn of a voice and a careworn face that conveyed the fallout of many, many years of bus rides, motels and late-night diners.
    — Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • If the property changes hands, the Coast Guard would still need access to maintain the foghorn and flashing red light.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 2 June 2021
  • These included bird calls, whale songs, heartbeats, traffic noises, foghorns, tugboats, and ocean liners.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The foghorn blew every 30 seconds and pelicans sailed above, doing a quick half corkscrew turn before diving.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • When work needs to be done near their current enclosure, staff carry pepper spray and foghorns to ensure the cats do not acclimate to humans.
    — NBC News, 21 July 2019
  • Even when blaring foghorn synths add heaviness, Bonobo keeps the magic alive with swirling synths and accents that twinkle like stars at midnight.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The Golden Gate Bridge has three foghorns under the roadway, and two on the south tower, each of them a different pitch.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Through almost every moment of The Lighthouse, there’s a howling noise in the background, a foghorn that grimly warns passing ships of danger ahead.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Fellow whale songs, murmuring currents, the occasional foghorn, perhaps.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024
  • The ship sank shortly after hearing a foghorn nearby and then colliding with the SS Governor, a civilian steamship.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • The four-story lighthouse and attached foghorn building sit at the entrance of the Cleveland Harbor and are only accessible by boat.
    — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Coast Guard retains access to the light and the foghorn, and the new custodians are subject to historic-preservation requirements.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Sam had a sudden flash of some decades old cartoon, an anthropomorphized rabbit or skunk with its jaw dropped, a foghorn like awooga accompanying the lolling of its cartoonishly long tongue.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The beacon and foghorn of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse were activated in 1881.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Yet in 1992, new general manager Brian Burke replaced the song with a foghorn after the Whalers scored.
    — Paul Doyle, courant.com, 11 July 2017
  • Yet travelers who only know these waters from shoreline cities often miss their quieter side, where shipwrecks rest beneath clear depths, small ports wake to foghorns and science teams study a living ecosystem in real time.
    — Malika Bowling, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • To celebrate his arrival, a cannon boomed in a ceremonial salute and boats in the marina sounded foghorns that at one point interrupted Leo's remarks.
    — Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Outside, a ship’s foghorn sounds in the distance and from the café across the street, a referee’s whistle punctuates the morning air as patrons sip coffee and watch a recap of a recent Olympic soccer match.
    — Ryan Schuessler, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
  • Near Morro Rock — where tourists snapped photos of lounging sea otters as the foghorn bellowed its low, mournful call — Diego Avila stopped to gaze at the smokestacks across the water.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022

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