air horn
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Preaching renewal in these circumstances is like trying to shout over an air horn.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
As the German entrepreneur sat pitchside at a sold-out O2 Arena for the season-concluding Final Four event, any online negativity was drowned out by thousands of screaming children and regular interjections from an air horn.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025
“A police car with an air horn or the siren, we would push the bear up out of the community. Fifteen minutes later, they were right back downtown,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
Break out the reggaeton air horn and fire a few pew-pew-pews! into the air from your finger guns, because the Golden Globes are back, baby!
From Salon • Dec. 12, 2023
There Carl stood in the Islander s spotlight, a big man in bib overalls poised in his boat’s bow, a kerosene lantern clutched in one hand and an air horn dangling from the other.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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