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foghorn

[ UK /fˈɒɡhɔːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone
  2. 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.
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