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How to use honk in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb, noun, interjection

Honk means to use a car horn. Example: “They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk.”

Examples of honk by meaning

verbTo use a car horn.

  • They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk.

verbTo squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.

  • She honked my titties.

nounThe harsh note produced by a typical car horn.

  • The engineer had been expecting this and responded at once with an acknowledging honk on the horn before bringing this huge, 16-car train gently to a stand at the platform.1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States:Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 424

More sentences with honk

  • I shifted into reverse and was just about to back up when our silly cat walked behind the car! Honk honk, kitty! Get out of there!From the entry reverse
  • A rasp of guinea fowl honked as 'Emma' the ostrich pecked.2025, Rory MacLean, Nick Danziger, Back in the USSR. From the entry rasp
  • "It encourages people to honk every time you pass a truck or tempo.2015 May 1, Somit Sen, “Maharashtra government says tata-bye-bye to ‘Horn OK Please’ on trucks”, in The Economic Times, archived from the…. From the entry Horn OK Please
  • He hit the accelerator and froggered into the fast lane, inciting a symphony of angry honking.2014, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Truth Be Told: A Jane Ryland Novel, →ISBN, page 268. From the entry frogger
  • Sitting unpenguinlike, with heads up high like ducks, they begin uttering honking calls as they paddle seaward.2011, Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN. From the entry unpenguinlike
  • And with his ghostly honking wailing he heads out the jarrahwood door.2007, Brooke Biaz, Moon Dance. From the entry jarrahwood
  • He had a Harpo bulbhorn he honked as people came by.2005, Waldrop, Howard, Heart of Whitenesse, Subterranean Press, page 180. From the entry bulbhorn
  • The carbrain honked and started the engine when the clock reached 00:30.1992, James Patrick Kelly, “Pogrom”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, page 429. From the entry carbrain
  • I honked the horn and flickered the lights as a bat signal for my mom to save me.2022, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams. From the entry Bat-Signal
  • Let Mama pet you.” (honks) “Aw, now there's a good boy.” “Get to the incriminating one.” “No, no, no, no no!2021 April 4, Rich Blomquist & Erin Wagoner, “Easter's 11” (19:24 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 16, spoken by…. From the entry crotchal
  • Suddenly we were at the epicenter of an angry, honking goose mob, focused on Gabe’s peanut buttery fingers.2017, Heather Harpham, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, London: Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, page 288. From the entry peanut buttery
  • The train clacketed through pine forests and honked derisively at a gaily painted bell-funneled museum piece sidetracked in a clearing.2015 July 10, “Harper Lee’s new novel: read the first chapter”, in The Guardian. From the entry clacket
  • Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.2007, Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, page 199. From the entry autospeak
  • “If somebody honks, they’ll honk back.2020, Renée Santos, “Caught On Camera: Driver ‘Brake Checks’ Vehicle, Causing Driver To Lose Control On Highway 50”, in CBS Sacramento. From the entry brake check
  • The last living biker came at me with a knife, a big honking knife, the kind that makes an outlaw feel really baaaad.2012, K. Bennett, The Year of Eating Dangerously (urban fantasy), page 10. From the entry baaad

Meaning of honk

  1. verb To use a car horn.
  2. verb To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
  3. verb To make the vocal sound of a goose.

Full definition of honk

Questions about honk in a sentence

How do you use honk in a sentence?
Honk is used as a verb, noun and interjection. For example: “They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk.”
What is a short sentence with honk?
“She honked my titties.”
What does honk mean?
Honk means to use a car horn.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: honk (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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