They passed over the pond toward Fair Haven, seemingly deterred from settling by my light, their commodore honking all the while with a regular beat.
As it grew darker, I was startled by the honking of geese flying low over the woods, like weary travellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation.
Whether or not the boy understood it was impossible to say; but all at once he began to flop his arms up and down, quacking and honking in imitation of wild fowl.
Honking of auto horns soon warned the Bobbies that their company was coming, and when the honking swelled into a concert, and the concert swelled into a volley, the campers realized they were due to enjoy a surprise.
Snipe and reed birds were noisy in the hollows and from the misty tundra lakes came the honking of brant.
One Fall, when the air was full of the honking of the geese, he had arrived mysteriously with the first cold, and seemed to bring the winter with him.
And above, in the enormous hollow of the sky, the stars glittered like many camp-fires, and ever and again the flocks of travelling voices came honking out of the north, and filled the silence with a wandering cry.
And as the harsh honking cry fell from the roof of the world, Dusty Star knew that the vast waters of the North were giving up their geese.
And when, at long intervals, a flock of wild geese would approach with shrill, honking call out of the vast darkness of the North, the cry seemed to carry evil tidings of their approaching doom.
This is the Shadow Trail the wild geese take on their April flight to the north, as, honking through the rain-warm nights, they interweave their wings with the calling wind.
They had nearly finished their second plates when the honking of a horn warned them of the approach of some one.
They were almost at the turn when the honking of an automobile horn warned them of the approach of a car.
A loudhonking from the rear of the column caused Donovan to stop the jeep.
We'd need a car to--" A great honking and squealing of brakes behind them made the boys jump for safety.
Listen to this: "Now the festive frog is croaking in the mere, And the canvasback is honking in the bay, And the summer-girl is smiling full of cheer On the willieboys that chance along her way.
No sweet-singing robin-redbreast or soft-honking canvasback for yours truly this A.
Some of them munition- millionaires, no doubt--tearing over the country at night honking their horns like they owned the roads, and covering poor walking people with their splashings!
They saw an automobile come in at the gate, its horn honking savagely, causing the crowd to leap to one side or the other.
Walter and I have been bear-honking all day in a district reputed to be simply crawling with bears.
All Tuesday was spent in honkingbear in the lower woods which stretch far towards the Pohru.
Wednesday was spent honking in the forlorn hope of a bear, I have now spent more than fourteen days in pursuit of black bear, and I have only seen one.
They heard it in the honking of the first flock of wild geese.
Every year, as the winter's snow melted away, as the honking geese passed above the rivers and a million flowers bloomed, he had shouldered pick and pan to begin one more search for the mine of green gold.
What a happy flock of geese flew honking away in an even V, with the handsomest, grayest, plumpest goose in all the world at their head!
And as she stood there waiting, the sky grew black above her head with the shadowing of wings, and the honking of the geese grew louder and nearer till they circled and lighted in a flock at her feet.
And even as she sat there wondering what had happened, she heard a prodigious honking overhead, and a flock of geese came straggling down, not in the usual trim V, but all unevenly and without a leader.
I shouldn't wonder if we heard your car honking for you in half an hour.
Then I caught her to me; and despite my crutches and my bandaged head and that atrocious horn in the distance honking the signal for our parting, I was the happiest being in France--or in the world.
It was thathonking habit of the elder's which had driven them, she often told me, from New England to Ohio, then to Illinois, and finally out to Monterey Centre.
It contracted its body and gripped its ankle with both hands, honking dismally.
The remaining child stood in the middle of the floor, staring at its groaning, breathless playmate and at the maimed adult, honking a little frightened song to itself.
Duff, in a new and real rage this time, up with his gun and banged off both barrels after the motor car, by this time honking down the trail.
Along came Neil Fraser, no less, in that new car of his, in a whirlwind of noise and dust, honking like a flock of wild geese.
There were motor lorries, honking and thundering their insistent way through dodging, escaping, cursing infantry, forty-six miles of them to a single army corps.
At this moment, fortunately for the harmony of the party, their attention was arrested by the appearance of a motor car driven at a furious rate along the trail, and which almost before they were aware came honking upon them.
In the middle of a story he thought he heard honking and the beating of wings, as if the geese were flying away, but he did not dare to venture over to the balustrade to find out if it was so.
He was almost at the turn when there came a fierce honking right behind him.
There came a sudden honking from the waiting 'mobile, the Lady hastily kissed Bobby, put on his hat for the last time, and led him out of the house.
But Milt belonged to the honking and the hustle, and it was not the soul of the grass that he read in the poem, but his own sun-flickering flight: Swiftly the brazen car comes on.
Here was the poet, disturbed by the honkinghustle of passing cars.
They were honking as they went, their faint "quacks" coming back on the thin air and making him feel desperately lonely and bereft.
There were automobiles honking and pedestrians laboring along in the snow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "honking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
