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Recent Examples of honk
Next came a honk that was lower in pitch than the first, with a slight bray.
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Former Anderson Township Trustee Andrew Pappas organized a honk and wave at the private jet center where Trump's private plane landed.
—Scott Wartman, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2024
While fending off these undead clowns, if players use a melee attack, the zombie clown's horn honks.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 May 2024
Thousands of young people flowed into the Mbour stadium to see him on Friday evening, the air filling with the honk of vuvuzelas.
—Mady Camara, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Former Anderson Township Trustee Andrew Pappas organized a honk and wave at the private jet center where Trump's private plane landed.
—Scott Wartman, The Courier-Journal, 16 May 2024
While fending off these undead clowns, if players use a melee attack, the zombie clown's horn honks.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 May 2024
Thousands of young people flowed into the Mbour stadium to see him on Friday evening, the air filling with the honk of vuvuzelas.
—Mady Camara, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honk
Noun
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The jungle struck up its evening symphony: the sweet chittering of insects, the distant bellowing of monkeys, the occasional screech of a kite.—
Charlie Cordero,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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But as the race against former President Trump screeches into its final week, joy has taken the back seat.—
David Lauter,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Nature greeted me with the best welcome soundtrack: waves of silence bedecked with soft trickles from a nearby creek, the cheerful chirps from birds, and leaves rustled by a gentle breeze.—
Gabrielle Nicole Pharms,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Jan. 2025
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Tuning into Scottie Scheffler this season felt like a bird-watching expedition on overdrive—his tour-leading 4.88 birdies per round featured more chirps per hour than an Audobon Trail.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes,
10 Dec. 2024
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Barrymore squeals in disgust after reaching into her pocket and pulling out a sandwich.—
Shyla Watson,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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At the corner of St. Peter and Royal Streets, a tuba begins its rumbling and a trombone squeals; the instruments sparkle in the sunlight, glinting gold amid a gathering crowd.—
Caroline Rogers,
Southern Living,
25 Nov. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Nov. 2024
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Flocks of sparrows and parrots chirp and squawk in the palms overhead.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
9 June 2024
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His background included military service and gigs as a professional trumpet player.—
Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Jan. 2025
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Questlove cites Prince and the Revolution as a direct descendant of Stone’s integration-now, segregation-never lineup, which even featured a female trumpet player (his sometime partner Cynthia Robinson).—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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The rocket booster revved up the 33 engines at its base, sending a loud roar across Starbase, the SpaceX launch site near Brownsville, Texas.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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From the Miami Herald’s archives, here is Michael Crook’s report from March 1989 in Tropic magazine: Donald Trump in Palm Beach: Hitting a roar nerve First published March 19, 1989 The sun has disappeared beyond the middle-class condos of West Palm Beach and the western sky is painted tangerine.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Sneaker squeaks were part of the in-arena chorus of sounds as were the thumps of bodies hitting the floor.—
Sabreena Merchant,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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And on Thursday night, Ken Carter was one of about two dozen people inside a basketball gym, where the only signs a game was taking place were the squeaks of sneakers and four buzzers to signal the end of each quarter.—
Evan Webeck,
The Mercury News,
13 Dec. 2024
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For me, the Caribbean is the cluck of a rooster during sunrise, a coconut from a roadside truck to quell the afternoon heat.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Dec. 2024
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Her 8-year-old daughter, wearing pigtails, sucked on a lollipop as the clucks of chickens cut through the quiet of the neighborhood. 1 of 2 In Georgia, agriculture is a $83.6 billion industry that supports more than 323,000 jobs, according to the Georgia Farm Bureau.—
Tribune News Service,
Hartford Courant,
4 Nov. 2024
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“Honk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honk. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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