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单词 foghorn
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foghornfog‧horn /ˈfɒɡhɔːn $ ˈfɑːɡhɔːrn, ˈfɒːɡ-/ noun [countable] Examples
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  • As a kid I would lie awake listening to the foghorns.
  • It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away, raising its hands to its mouth.
  • Just then a foghorn sounded right clear.
  • Mainland anxieties clog my throat, bleating foghorns fill my ears.
  • Maybe it's because they sound like a goat rammed down a foghorn.
  • These were filled with images of street scenes, of clattering cable cars and the sound of the foghorns on Alcatraz.
  • To the accompaniment of foghorns and buoy bells, beside a crackling fire, l slowly eat my dinner.
  • When he wasn't here he thought we might fall ill or something, so he installed the foghorns.
1a loud horn on a ship, used in fog to warn other ships of its position2a voice like a foghorn informal a very loud unpleasant voice
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