claxon
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claxon
Naturalized English spelling
Example Sentences
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By now we have all “heard delirium in a claxon, / Seen revelation lit on chromium.”
From Los Angeles Times
Around historical mosques there, prayer times are now announced with a grating claxon.
From New York Times
Soon, cell-phone towers in the Wilson County area were triangulating every mobile phone in their range, and the area’s devices simultaneously let out a claxon beep as an emergency alert arrived.
From The New Yorker
The cold open of “My Struggle II” ends with Scully’s face distorting into that of an alien, with an uncanny valley realness that feels like a great big claxon warning you to stop watching.
From Salon
Matriarch Sandra, 63, has a hand full of claxons and a mouth full of songs.
From Newsweek
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