as in tubes
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 horns
Eduardo Cuevas Times Square was beating with blaring horns as military bands performed onstage in the middle of the New York City tourist destination to celebrate Independence Day.
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Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
Passing motorists on Rosalind Avenue beeped their horns to complete the tumult for independence.
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Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2026
Sirens, horns, and shouts to evacuate rang out in the West Bottoms and along Southwest Boulevard all morning, but the speed of the flooding still caught everyone off guard.
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Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
Hides, horns and tusks, cases of superb custom rifles and shotguns that dreams are made of.
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John Madson,
Outdoor Life,
1 July 2026
The videos showed Mexico fans playing music, dancing, chanting, revving vehicle engines, honking horns and setting off fireworks.
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Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
30 June 2026
Caretakers manage breeding programs to preserve their distinctive traits, including their long horns and rich brown coloring, a shade associated with royalty, maturity and stability.
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ABC News,
27 June 2026
Mexican soldiers and volunteers repeatedly asked for silence to try to hear signs of life under the rubble, but bikers — civilian and uniformed — continued to honk horns and rev engines.
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CBS News,
27 June 2026
In action today, Norway’s goal-scoring giant Erling Haaland locks his Viking horns with France’s lighting-fast Kylian Mbappé, who is hunting down the World Cup scoring record.
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Mark Hodge,
NBC news,
26 June 2026
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
Passing motorists on Rosalind Avenue beeped their horns to complete the tumult for independence.
—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2026
Sirens, horns, and shouts to evacuate rang out in the West Bottoms and along Southwest Boulevard all morning, but the speed of the flooding still caught everyone off guard.
—
Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
Hides, horns and tusks, cases of superb custom rifles and shotguns that dreams are made of.
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John Madson,
Outdoor Life,
1 July 2026
The videos showed Mexico fans playing music, dancing, chanting, revving vehicle engines, honking horns and setting off fireworks.
—
Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
30 June 2026
Caretakers manage breeding programs to preserve their distinctive traits, including their long horns and rich brown coloring, a shade associated with royalty, maturity and stability.
—
ABC News,
27 June 2026
Mexican soldiers and volunteers repeatedly asked for silence to try to hear signs of life under the rubble, but bikers — civilian and uniformed — continued to honk horns and rev engines.
—
CBS News,
27 June 2026
In action today, Norway’s goal-scoring giant Erling Haaland locks his Viking horns with France’s lighting-fast Kylian Mbappé, who is hunting down the World Cup scoring record.
—
Mark Hodge,
NBC news,
26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horns
Noun
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The oxygen released in the tank then flows through four silicone supply tubes that are attached to the roach’s spiracles prior to the operation.
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Among the photos were ones of the supermodel admiring the view outside her hospital window and one with tubes taped to her neck and head.
Noun
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Nevertheless, Gadson’s father, Harold, bought him and his brother, Thomas, cornets to play in their school’s drum and bugle corps, Gadson recalled in author Jim Payne’s The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul.
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While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets.
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“Horns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horns. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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