foghorns in English

noun
1
a device making a loud, deep sound as a warning to ships in fog.
The ship's foghorn sounded mournfully into the mist.

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1. Mainland anxieties clog my throat, bleating foghorns fill my ears.

2. When he wasn't here he thought we might fall ill or something, so he installed the foghorns.

3. To the accompaniment of foghorns and buoy bells, beside a crackling fire, l slowly eat my dinner.

4. These were filled with images of street scenes, of clattering cable cars and the sound of the foghorns on Alcatraz.

5. For this reason, many lighthouses are equipped with powerful acoustic devices such as bells, foghorns, sirens and, for a time, even cannons!