How to Use foghorn in a Sentence

foghorn

noun

• The sound of a foghorn is heard echoing in the background.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• For two minutes, the foghorn echoed across Pearl Harbor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• The name Cecil the Lion, on the other hand, probably sounds like a foghorn.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There seems to be a wink at that at the outset: The first song opens with something like a quivering foghorn, suggesting a distance that can’t quite be overcome.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2016
• Even with new owners, the lighthouse's lamp and foghorn must remain working and the U.S. Coast Guard must be allowed to perform maintenance.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 6 June 2017
• The bellow of a foghorn can be deafening, or even more dangerous, to people nearby.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The beacon and foghorn of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse were activated in 1881.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• And now comes an archangel, or a whistle blowing with the force of a foghorn: a seven-page complaint that’s shaken the presidency in a way that 448 pages of the Mueller report could not.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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 ship sank shortly after hearing a foghorn nearby and then colliding with the SS Governor, a civilian steamship.
  — Washington Post, 13 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There's that homicidal frog/foreboding foghorn/evil tuba again.
  — Meredith Bodgas, Woman's Day, 29 July 2015
• Like the irritated neighbors of the Hollywood sign, RPV’s prosperous insomniacs grumbled about the pulsing nightlong twirl of light, and so the inland side of the lamp was painted opaque white, and the foghorn was silenced early in this century.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• His performance plays like a series of mental ruptures, each with its own trigger: an ill-mannered seagull, brutal lashings of rain and wind, persistent foghorn blasts that merge inextricably with Mark Korven’s mighty score.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024