What's the difference between bawl and shout?

Bawl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
  • (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
  • (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.
  • (n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All that shouting and bawling from two of News Corporation's most senior executives?
  • (2) "Man, I bawl like a baby every time I listen to this song," writes one YouTube commenter of the track Walk In The Park.
  • (3) !” bawled at me when, as a new cabbie, I had the temerity to ask one of my betters to repeat himself.
  • (4) "I have been watching the the USMNT for the better part of 20 years and it is always the same, in any big game where they need a result or where they are the favorites they play with both hands placed firmly around their necks," bawls Brian Goldych.
  • (5) The sensitive, rawer moments where fictional Julie’s life intersects with Grayson’s are inevitable given the honesty of his work, but what’s most impressive are when the details mirror the real-life Julies, as more than one bawls her mascaraed eyes out with familiarity when the group step inside.
  • (6) Firstly, Parker lost possession after going down in midfield and, as he bawled for a free-kick, Adnan Januzaj scampered away with the ball before passing to Van Persie, who, again with no Fulham defenders in attendance, smashed into the net from 15 yards out.
  • (7) As well as stopping the proceedings at regular intervals to tell MPs to calm down, he is now considering naming individual MPs who bawl and barrack during PMQs, hoping that being named and shamed by their local media will provide a useful disincentive.
  • (8) But through the bawling, a few useful things were got on the record.
  • (9) Cause he's also done that in the past," bawls Piers Atkinson.
  • (10) Yvette Cooper is the only candidate who looks like a prime minister | Richard Leese Read more In stark terms, he says Labour’s consideration of Corbyn must stop if it wants to be a serious party of power rather than just a “party of protest that marches, campaigns, backs strikes, calls for ministerial resignations, more money for every cause going, shouts and bawls and fingerjabs”.
  • (11) "The close proximity is highly relevant when you come to consider how openly these Iraqis were abused and how the shouting, bawling, screaming from that facility must have been heard by numerous soldiers and officers in that camp and yet no one appears to have raised it as a concern."
  • (12) This year public sector workers are turning up there to bawl him out over pensions.
  • (13) It’s all breastfeeding and dirty bums and bawling for hours and hours.
  • (14) "It doesn't greatly advance the feminist cause to allow MPs to cart their bawling babies through the lobby," she said.
  • (15) I rang my friend, my American editor and bawled and bawled, and she told me to write it all down, and I wrote for two hours.
  • (16) Might it pander to self-absorption, and encourage people to behave like bawling narcissists?
  • (17) And when I'd turn to them and see they were grinning from ear-to-ear, or they were bawling their eyes out, I knew we had something special."
  • (18) Standing to be mounted, bawling, and attempting to mount were the three criteria used for determining the presence of estrus.
  • (19) I think that deserves a round of applause.” A man called Michael says he doesn’t need a microphone and bawls his question in broadest Lancashire.
  • (20) Another fan further down the row bawled his eyes out as he bellowed to the heavens.

Shout


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
  • (v. t.) To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.
  • (v. t.) To treat with shouts or clamor.
  • (n.) A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
  • (2) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
  • (3) It’s around this point in the film’s chronology that Rodman makes his now infamous appearance on CNN , where he rejected calls to assist in the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae and shouted at interviewer Chris Cuomo.
  • (4) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
  • (5) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
  • (6) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
  • (7) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.
  • (8) An excitable audience filled Glasgow's all-smoking, all-drinking Old Fruitmarket with shouted requests to Zevon who, at 53, looks a little mashed up by life.
  • (9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
  • (10) And when the international community shouts selectively about human rights it encourages conservatives to feel that they are being hectored again by “ Little Satan ” Britain or “Great Satan” America.
  • (11) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
  • (12) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
  • (13) A Chelsea fan filmed while racist chants were shouted on the Paris Métro was a “vocal” supporter of Ukip, even posing with the party’s leader, Nigel Farage.
  • (14) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
  • (15) Early in the unrest protesters carried crosses and shouted anti-sectarian slogans: "Muslims, Christians, Alawis are all one."
  • (16) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
  • (17) "25 at 4 [2,500 shares at 400p each], print that quickly," shouts one trader.
  • (18) Up went the shouts for a second penalty, Koller ran along the touchline to add his voice, but the referee said no.
  • (19) An officer claimed McKenna had shouted: "Fucking Yankee bastards out."
  • (20) In fact, I think I heard "it's not rape if you shout 'surprise'", at least 20 years ago and it hasn't aged well.