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Recent Examples of honk
In Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood Monday, more than 100 people chanted and waved flags from Latin American countries, inspiring honks and chants from those driving by.
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Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
The geese honk, the chickens squawk and the turkeys strut haughtily, unaware that Thanksgiving is nigh.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2024
They’re treated to Glenn’s first signature good-bye horn honk of the season.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
First came a recorded honk from an unpartnered male goose named Joshua.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honk
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But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.—
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His grandson toddled over, climbed into his lap, accepted a kiss with a screech of delight, and scooted off again.—
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Drivers build lives around parking: the work shifts altered to align with the alternate-side-rotation hours, the keys always in the pocket, the Pavlovian alertness at the chirp of an unlocking car.—
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From its facial expressions to its distinctive chirp, the creature is wreathed in a kind of nostalgia that Eighties kids will remember from those early days trolling the VHS rack at their local Blockbuster.—
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Frontman Bryan Garris let out a mighty pig squeal as guest vocalist Poppy thrashed and screamed across the stage, dressed like an even more macabre girl from The Ring.—
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Listen for a squeal and know that your prank was a success! 20.—
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The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.—
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The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.—
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In addition to getting lessons and after-school tutoring from Gerdes, Windham has been taking private lessons for the past two years from John Wilds, a former trumpet player in the San Diego Symphony.—
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For thousands of years, the native people of the Andes have made the inner bark of trumpet trees into a medicinal tea that is useful in fighting infections, shrinking tumors, numbing aches and pains, and strengthening the autoimmune system in general.—
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The ensuing roar caused Bryson DeChambeau, standing on the 17th green, to reset his pre-shot routine.—
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On the drivable par-4 14th, Scheffler caused a roar in the crowd with an excellent tee shot to set up a short eagle putt.—
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As the birds practiced, their initial random squeaks gradually turned into melodies that closely matched their parents’ songs.—
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And studies have shown that mice carrying human FOXP2 genes also make strange squeaks.—
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This leads us to the crux...or perhaps the clucks...of my story.—
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Chickens run and cluck around the Bennet home; the family’s clothes look worn, at times even dirty; the houses are cluttered, the people messy, their interactions chaotic.—
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“Honk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honk. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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