Horn

//hɔːn//

"Horn" in a Sentence (28 examples)

The Van Horn family was in the chips.

Don't blow your own horn too much.

Nobody likes him, because he is always blowing his own horn.

This may sound like blowing my own horn, but ...

It may sound like blowing my own horn, but I can speak French.

She therefore came up on this side, opened her own window and tapped her horn lightly to draw attention to the fact that she was there.

The train slowed and blared its horn as it approached the railway crossing.

The Van Horn family was rich.

I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s.

Tom spent a lot of time trying to learn how to play the French horn.

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an umbrella with a handle made of horn

horns of mead and ale

I guarantee you a mighty feast, horns of ale, and afterwards wrestling and racing and contests of strength.

[W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.

Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar

hunting horn

The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.

antenna horn

loudspeaker horn

Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.

to navigate around the horn

But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker.

, His Precious Gem He horned five times but the man didn't moved his car away.

Sailing around the Horn was an arduous journey for sailing ships.

At the same time, it would be erroneous to exaggerate U.S. interests, to overreact to political developments in the Horn, or to adopt imprudent policies based on emotional reactions to Soviet and Cuban involvement.

[…] countries fail to explore the possibilities of producing other crops of high value and demand in the Horn or elsewhere.

The word Somali itself today refers to any inhabitant of Somalia; it also refers to any person of ethnic Somali origin in the Horn or elsewhere.

Although major coups had taken off in the Arab world in Egypt in 1952, this was the first coup in the Horn or indeed in post-independence Africa.

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