Sentence examples for tin horns from inspiring English sources

To call one another to action, they blew on five-foot-long tin horns.

The tin horns they used to call to one another could be heard across the valleys.

By 1951, according to Howard Pollack, the author of "George Gershwin: His Life and Work," Ira Gershwin had "totally eliminated the word from the text, replacing it with such terms as tin horns, dummy, low-life, suckers, buzzard, and baby".

After reading the second draft aloud, and going through the piece for the third time (removing the tin horns and radio static that I heard while reading), I enclose things in boxes for Draft No. 4. If I enjoy anything in this process it is Draft No. 4. I go searching for replacements for the words in the boxes.

A correspondent for The Chicago Daily Tribune judged the noise in Times Square that night to be more varied than in previous years, including "trombones that yowled like a cat in torture, a combination of cowbells and streetcar gongs, tin horns with a double register".

All three singers sounded as if auditioning a fugue for tin horns.

High on a hill an Indian stood, and a tin horn sounded through the woods.

The microphone into which the disc jockey of the hour speaks or sings has a tin horn, of the type used by New Year's Eve celebrants, protruding from its non-functional end.

He has haunted Armstrong's streets, where music once spilled from every saloon, where young Louis once dipped his face in flour and won an amateur contest in whiteface, and where he worked for the Karnofsky family, who gave the future trumpeter his first gig tooting a tin horn on their junk wagon.

The more modern plastic form evolved from a tin horn that became popular with South African soccer fans about 15 years ago.

The music of Chad includes a number of unusual instruments such as the kinde, a type of bow harp; the kakaki, a long tin horn; and the hu hu, a stringed instrument that uses calabashes as loudspeakers.