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Meanings of roaring in English
Synonyms
Examples for "roar"
Examples for "roar"
1
May be seen; roar; will be appointed; have flown; has been recommended.
2
We'd hear that bullish roar across the school fields behind our house.
3
Over the roar, she didn't think Amos heard Fayez say, All right.
4
The roar of escaping gas was heard in Munroville, five miles distant.
5
I heard the roar of the guns when out in the hills.
1
That's surely no surprise to him because he's often bellowing as well.
2
Folk enjoy going to the movies in groups and bellowing along together.
3
Beyond was the ceaseless bellowing and stamping and weaving of the herds.
4
Over the range, cattle were bellowing in their mad fear of fire.
5
When his stepfather was bellowing, he was usually-notalways but usually-allright.
1
Captain Esquelamar had fought his way to consciousness with a great bellow.
2
The stallion was restless and fiery-eyed; the bull sent forth a bellow.
3
An inarticulate bellow escaped him as a hand gripped his right arm.
4
The earsplitting bellow sent a new wave of adrenaline flooding through me.
5
I could bellow a list of far flung dinners in his ear.
1
Well, it does sound creepy to holler in the timber after night.
2
He took a long look at the hills that surrounded the holler.
3
If you was to holler at it I'd die in my tracks.
4
The fellows have been waiting for you to holler out the news.
5
When lots of people began to holler, he knew something was wrong.
1
Hampden was hollering its' disapproval after only 11 minutes of this tie.
2
Goshy stopped hollering and seemed to come to some kind of decision.
3
The people in the crowd who were nearest started hollering in fear.
4
They left the premises hollering as if they had won an All-Ireland.
5
Those boys'll be hollering police brutality if they don't get their supper.
1
Yet he kept thinking of that yowl he'd heard in the night.
2
How on earth did you manage that, I hear you collectively yowl.
3
The fetch let out another shrieking yowl and bounded almost straight up.
4
The boy from the North End let out a yowl of pain.
5
Then it gave a fearful yowl, and bounded out of the door.
1
I felt that it was all up now, and began to holloa.
2
It will be some time before he gets breath enough to holloa.
3
But they answered to it all, Only wait our loud view-holloa
4
She pauses, and as a one we clap and we holloa
5
I was thus engaged when I heard a loud holloa!
1
Would you hollo much louder if they tomahawked you?
2
A faint, dreary hollo off the moor above.
3
But, hollo, John, where did you drop from?' as it suddenly occurred to him to be surprised.
4
Boys, don't hollo so much.
5
But that only made him hollo the louder, and he holloed so loud that at last he made somebody hear.
1
Half-way down the hill a policeman holla'd to me to stop.
2
This was attended with a smart clapping of the hands, and a kind of savage holla!
3
What for dun He give 'em mouths so's they can holla, and not listen at 'em?
4
He meant he lived as far as a man's voice would carry with one yell and a holla.
5
Why does a happy boy holla?
Very lively and profitable.
Related terms
Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
Related terms
Usage of roaring in English
1
It did a roaring trade among expatriate aid workers, diplomats and journalists.
2
In the growing light, he heard the distant sound of roaring water.
3
The water divided on either side of the island before roaring past.
4
A great fire was roaring in the wood stove in the office.
5
Roma was sitting in the shadow with a roaring in her ears.
6
The Dáil visitors' bar was doing a roaring trade on Wednesday morning.
7
The water is a roaring torrent in the bottom of the gully.
8
The roaring of the wind in the fire did not wake him.
9
The roaring buggies have come a long way from their humble origins.
10
Before Castle Carris a turbulent, roaring sea of reavers blackened the land.
11
Saw the light and heard the roaring of de guns miles away.
12
The roaring of the broken waters increased the horrors of the scene.
13
The roaring of the fire in the stairway sounded louder, than ever.
14
Shrill voices rose in meaningless cries above the roaring of the fire.
15
The very earth round about was in the chaos of roaring battle.
16
The roaring noise of a fire foretells a quarrel in the house.
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Roaring across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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