Example collocations logo

Horns in sentence

121 examples of Horns in a sentence

The "monster" is some kind of mutant dog with horns, and is about as scary as a legless Huckleberry Hound.
There is also a "hooter honker," which is a pair of bulb-type bicycle horns.
The creature, a man in a costume, would be OK if its rubbery head horns didn't keep wiggling every time the creature munches down on someone.
Bloodvengance in Iceland, vikings that appear as vikings,and not with the silly horns or their helmets.
All of the characters in this film have an imperviousness to the objections related to a perceived totalitarianism brought on in the sixties, not just because the radical aspect of the decade has yet to be, but also, because locking horns with the authority figures is not second nature to them ...(Even Big John Milner)...
A very attractive prison guard (Jennifer Wiggins) is trapped in lockup with some bad-boys and a guy who turns into a four-fingered monster with horns on the back of his head and the worst case of back hair you've ever seen.
It rocks here in all its xylophone and funky electric organ and horns glory!
Rugged ex-cop World War II veteran Burt Roth (a marvelously crusty Lee Van Cleef) and his equally tough Vietnam veteran bartender son Jim (a typically fine David Carradine) lock horns with ruthless Yakuza mobster Akira Tanaka (a deliciously wicked Mako) over who's got dibs on a priceless jade statue.
More recently, he has taken the world to the brink of nuclear war by locking horns with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
It would be far better for the German government to take the bull by the horns by defining the principles of a European economic government in such a way that both countercyclical debt policy within the Maastricht framework and the ECB’s independence are preserved.
Amid road construction and honking horns, the vaunted freedom of the open road has long since vanished in the rear-view mirror.
Commercial trade in species that are threatened with extinction – including elephants, rhinos, and tigers – as well as derivative products, such as tusks, horns, and powders, is completely prohibited.
Wrong-Headed on Rare EarthsBRUSSELS – For more than two years, the world’s industrialized countries have been locking horns with China over the supply of rare earth elements, a critical component of many high-tech products.
Many upwardly mobile urbanites thus find themselves caught on the horns of a dilemma: how to reconcile aspirations for a better lifestyle, as symbolized by America, with increasing abhorrence of US policies.
South Africa’s Rhino ParadoxJOHANNESBURG – Earlier this year, South Africa’s Constitutional Court overturned a 2009 moratorium on trade in rhinoceros horns.
But as the court’s ruling sinks in, commercial breeders and animal rights groups face a crucial question: could the creation of a legal market for farmed horns curb a poaching pandemic that claims some 1,500 wild rhinos annually?
Opponents of the trade say demand for horns could increase as a result of legalization, reviving dormant interest.
But they argue that because horns are a renewable resource – they grow back when trimmed, albeit slowly – what South Africa actually needs are incentives to encourage responsible breeding and conservation.
Poachers often prove the veracity of their illicit product by showing buyers horns that have been removed from the base of the skull, an extraction method that kills the animal.
Only the most conscience-stricken consumer would ensure that horns they purchase are sourced from licensed breeders.
Historically, poaching has also been immune to fluctuations in the retail price of rhino horns.
Breeders are convinced that with permitting systems and detection technologies, legal horns could be identified, law enforcement could prevent illegal horns from being trafficked, and domestic trading could reduce the stress on wild populations.
For starters, commercial breeding will succeed only if farmed horns are viewed as a substitute for products sourced from wild animals.
Furthermore, the horns of young adults grow by only about six centimeters a year, and that rate diminishes with age.
While breeders are eager to defend their trade, economists have debunked the myth that a legal domestic market in rhino horns will conserve wild populations.
India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama and the angry young hotheads of the Tibetan Youth Congress, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.
Caught on the horns of this dilemma, the Fed could do nothing to solve America’s problems.
This has put Lukashenko squarely on the horns of a dilemma.
The most eagerly anticipated item, a bull with golden horns and hooves, was entitled, with obvious intent, “The Golden Calf.”
Passing drivers honked their horns in support.
BackNext