horn - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • honk: You can alert others by honking a car horn or loudly describing what is happening.
  • blare: Ignoring traffic, blaring horns and fingered salutes, we kissed on cheeks, then lips and hips gridlocked.
  • toot: We drove all around Birmingham and tooted the horn at people in the street!
  • beep: But when Laurie Anderson composed a drive-in concert of motorists beeping car horns, she was being creative.

Adjective modifier

  • dorsal: The dorsal horns are where sensory neurons enter the spinal cord.
  • anterior: This histological and MRI evidence of lesions indicates that the polio virus both damaged and destroyed neurons in CNS territories beyond the anterior horn.
  • posterior: Logged Torn ACL, stable, medial meniscus tear of posterior horn.

Modifies a noun

  • loudspeaker: The company's advert featured a stereo anaglyph showing a type ' F ' table model and horn loudspeaker in a customer's house.

Noun used with modifier

  • flugel: Steve Drury is available to assist you on cornet or flugel horn.
  • buffalo: I used a piece of black buffalo horn to make a knob, capped with a slice of lilac wood.
  • tenor: When he joined the full band he changed to the tenor horn as 1st horn.
  • rhino: Rhino horn has proven to be very valuable on the black market.
  • basset: Mendelssohn wrote two concert pieces for clarinet, basset horn and pianoforte dedicated to father and son Baermann.
  • fog: There's fog horns, there's a piece of the Mozart Requiem, you name it.

Possessives

  • ram: Medallions of the king ever after showed him crowned with the ram's horns of kingship and divinity.

Preposition: of

  • meniscus: It has a number of distal attachments: ( i)The posterior horn of lateral meniscus via a muscular attachment.
  • consecration: Jucktas that we had glimpsed through the horns of consecration at Knossos.
  • dilemma: This week's secret I am on the horns of a dilemma.
  • altar: Flee out of your lost and miserable condition, flee to " the horns of the altar.
  • ox: The horns of the male musk ox are larger than those of the female.

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