Sentence examples for distant foghorn from inspiring English sources
All evening, a distant foghorn made faint calls out to sea.
The dull roar of the surf, the screeching gulls, the groaning seals and a distant foghorn all layer into a cacophony on the island.
One high point is the spookiness of Nate Wooley's score, which creeps into the space like a distant foghorn — he plays the trumpet — or in the form of whispering sounds by two vocalists seated in the audience.
Its deep, booming call sounds like a cross between a distant foghorn and someone blowing across the top of a milk bottle, and can be heard more than a mile away in quiet conditions.
Great rooftop chase scene with a minimalist musical score, distant foghorns, the Brooklyn Bridge (I think) shrouded in a mist.
"I like the bells from yachts in marinas banging in the wind, the distant sound of foghorns.
At least, that's what I'm thinking right up until the moment a foghorn bellows ominously from some distant ocean liner, swamping us entirely in a sombre aura of doom.
As fog envelops the city, and the muted foghorn of the Larkspur ferry and the distant bell of a cable car carry over the waters of the bay, it's easy to see why crooner Tony Bennett Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco.
Mr. Riley was inspired by foghorns in San Francisco Bay, and the music conveys their distant, misty sounds, although the concept doesn't effectively sustain the work.
