as in tubes
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container
musketeers carrying their gunpowder in powder horns
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Recent Examples of horns
With two foot-long horns protruding from either side of their heads, a large hump resting on their shoulders and folds of loose skin drooping from their neck, these aren’t your typical black-and-white milk carton dairy cows.
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Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2025
What will be visible that was not on April 8, 2024, is the prospect of solar horns appearing in the east.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 Mar. 2025
With string lights draped from the ceiling and backed by horns, the band tore through new and beloved tunes alike over the hour-and-a-half set, which featured a few surprise guests including Dawes, Maddison Cunningham, and Ed Helms, banjo in-hand.
—John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
The Choreography and Merriment team come marching down the hall, horns ablaze, to celebrate Mark’s victory.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
With amniotic fluids, prosthetic horns, and surreal dance sequences, Gaga pushed the viewer to accept beauty in all forms — especially in transhumanist imagery.
—Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
The neck girth was 28 inches, body girth behind the forelegs 47, greatest girth over the shoulders 56, and length from hind toe to tip of horns 9½ feet.
—Horace R. Hinkley, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
The event is actually about 5 miles to the north, along Interstate 70, where its performances will hopefully overpower the sirens and 18-wheeler horns crowding that busy stretch.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025
Supporters shouted encouragement and waved signs outside or drove by tapping their car horns.
—Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2025
What will be visible that was not on April 8, 2024, is the prospect of solar horns appearing in the east.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 Mar. 2025
With string lights draped from the ceiling and backed by horns, the band tore through new and beloved tunes alike over the hour-and-a-half set, which featured a few surprise guests including Dawes, Maddison Cunningham, and Ed Helms, banjo in-hand.
—John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
The Choreography and Merriment team come marching down the hall, horns ablaze, to celebrate Mark’s victory.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
With amniotic fluids, prosthetic horns, and surreal dance sequences, Gaga pushed the viewer to accept beauty in all forms — especially in transhumanist imagery.
—Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
The neck girth was 28 inches, body girth behind the forelegs 47, greatest girth over the shoulders 56, and length from hind toe to tip of horns 9½ feet.
—Horace R. Hinkley, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
The event is actually about 5 miles to the north, along Interstate 70, where its performances will hopefully overpower the sirens and 18-wheeler horns crowding that busy stretch.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025
Supporters shouted encouragement and waved signs outside or drove by tapping their car horns.
—Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Horns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horns. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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