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Example sentences for "honk"

Lexicographically close words:
hongry; hongs; honie; honied; honing; honked; honking; honks; honly; honnete
  1. Far overhead they could hear the honk of the wild geese flying south and the whistle of wings cutting the air.

  2. He could imitate the quack of a duck or the honk of a Canadian goose almost too well for his own safety.

  3. The rattle of elevated trains, the honk of auto horns, the drum of airplane motors, all these seemed still to sound in her ears.

  4. We wanted to get away from clang-clang and honk-honk and puff-puff.

  5. I will take my departure next Saturday after the Innitt's clam-bake on Honk Island.

  6. Once again we heard their honk off to our left, from a farther distance, and I am glad to say that we did not see them at all.

  7. Scarcely had these words left his lips ere a raucous honk up the road startled him.

  8. With savage delight Jasper had just torn out a whole handful and had shaken it free from its earth as a dog would shake a rat, when the honk of an auto caused him to look toward the road.

  9. The whistle of curlew, or the honk of wild geese high in the air, seems a greeting out of the clouds from these cosmopolites, to us, sitting rooted to the earth beneath.

  10. The honk, honk of an automobile horn was heard in the far distance to the rear of them.

  11. I hear the honk of a motor horn," she said.

  12. Evidently, it was the honk of the horn which had aroused Georgina, and when it sounded again she sprang up, still confused by the suddenness of her awakening, with only one thing clear in her mind, the necessity for haste.

  13. So for the first time in their lives Manuel and Joseph and Rosa rode in one of the "honk wagons" which heretofore they had known only as something to be dodged when one walked abroad.

  14. The whirr and honk of taxicabs, and the jangle of trolley cars, sounded beyond the wide dark portal of the dock-house.

  15. The hum and the honk of a motor-car sounded in the street.

  16. As if in answer to that question a honk of a motor car was heard outside.

  17. No man who ever saw high in the heavens a V-shaped flock of wild geese, or heard the honk language either afloat, ashore or in the air, will deny the spoken language of that species.

  18. The familiar honk of an automobile horn jerked their eyes from the paper to the curb, where the big gray touring car had silently drawn up.

  19. So the insistent honk of the motor horn found them all cloaked and bonneted, and ready for the day's fun.

  20. Therefore it need surprise no one if a worm should learn to honk as high as any goose that ever honked.

  21. Nor think that I, a caterpillian worm, Before thy glance should ever honk or squirm.

  22. The hoarse honk of a horn sounded from the intersecting street.

  23. As he watched, there came a distant honk of familiar note and in a few moments his car turned in through the gate.

  24. Honk lifted his voice appealingly from the street: "H'I say!

  25. Will Sergeant Honk state, sir, how many beers he had inside him when he thought he seed me?

  26. Honk understood only the one word, but that was enough.

  27. Sergeant Honk was in the forefront among the orderlies, and perhaps that was the reason he was drawn still further into the limelight.

  28. Once Sergeant Honk discovered them in the lines of another unit, but was indiscreet enough to proclaim his belief to the sergeant-major of that unit.

  29. Sergeant Honk was not beautiful to look upon--his best friends conceded this.

  30. The unfortunate Honk turned a deeper hue of red, and shuffled uncomfortably from one foot to the other.

  31. And under a perfect storm of applause and cries of protest, Honk departed as he had come--anglewise.

  32. Honk had been standing with his mouth open, listening intently and taking in every word orally.

  33. The ambulance driver and Sergeant Honk were seated in front, but little Mack was alone inside, and they had twenty miles to go.

  34. But reminiscence fled when Sergeant Honk assumed the stage.

  35. Some one had told Honk he could sing, and--subtle flatterer--he had been believed.

  36. Honk looked as if he thought this worse than being shot.

  37. The warning honk had not given the Mistress time to turn out.

  38. Less than a quarter-mile from their own gateway, they heard the blaring honk of a motor horn behind them.

  39. Very well; Martie should come along and honk the horn.

  40. Martie knew very little about them, but was sure she could honk the horn.

  41. Before the answer could be given a honk sounded at the door.

  42. From a distance came the honk of an automobile horn, as though in answer to the signal shots.

  43. It's a favorite trick of theirs to climb into any automobile left at the curbstone, and honk the horn till the owner comes out.

  44. THE HONK-HONK BREED PART II--THE TWO GUN MAN I.

  45. I was proud of 'em, and named 'em the Honk-honk Breed.

  46. Before Miss Elting could answer, the honk honk, honk of a motor car was heard nearing the camp.

  47. The young woman jumped out and seeing Grace Thompson stared at her for a moment then throwing up her hands, uttered an Indian war whoop that brought out from their tents all those who had not been aroused by the honk of the motor car.

  48. The rock above Honk Falls is hogback shape, a hundred or more feet long.

  49. Napanoch, on the Rondout below Honk Falls, is probably the same word that is met in Nepeak, translated by Dr.

  50. The Beekman grant was on both sides of Rondout Creek west and immediately above Honk Falls, where a large rock lying in the kill was the boundmark to which the name referred and from which it was extended to the stream and place.

  51. The valley passes into the town of Wawarsing, Ulster County, where the name is met in the Beekman and in the Lowe patents, with special application to the valley above Honk Falls, and is retained as the name of a modern village.

  52. They can go around me, or they can honk and be darned to 'em.

  53. The Cadillac roadster was still following pertinaciously, but it was too far back to honk at us.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.