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UK
/fˈɒɡhɔːn/
]
NOUN
- a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone
- a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships
How To Use foghorn In A Sentence
- The foghorn boomed out its warning.
- How dare Rush Limbaugh, the principal foghorn of the Right-wing noise machine, denounce them as "freeloaders? Bernard Weisberger: Onward Wisconsin
- After this fun, a foghorn sounded to signal the beginning of a ‘self-guided’ walking tour.
- The massive bike was fitted with a stereo and a foghorn to attract the maximum amount of attention.
- And it all happens at once, to the ear-splitting sound of an eight-headed foghorn and the ringing of a phone.
- The low moan of a foghorn across miles of greyness, the slap of waves breaking against a gently rocking hull in the dark, the slow creak of rusting quayside machinery in the wind beckon through the haar.
- The result: topo maps that hyperlink to so-called ‘geo-encoded’ content, such as Foghorn guides, which list some 50,000 campsites and 1,000 hiking trails per state.
- Short, mournful melodies emerge, like foghorns singing to themselves absent-mindedly.
- Mr Davis said he sounded the foghorn and they shouted for help.
- He was born by the sea; his childhood was filled with the sound of foghorns.