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Blare


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
  • (n.) The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Soviet-era music blaring from loudspeakers and the Russian tricolour everywhere, the overwhelming feeling in Sevastopol was that the city was finally "going home" after a 23-year stay in Ukraine .
  • (2) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
  • (3) Hundreds of people gathered in a small park to dance to Russian pop music being blared over speakers at a stage with accompanying screen projections.
  • (4) One participant blared Fuck tha Police , NWA’s anti-authority anthem, into the procession.
  • (5) Giant screens blare out ads for electronic gadgets and energy drinks.
  • (6) Some were seen driving through The Hague on Wednesday night, with Serb folk music blaring from their car windows.
  • (7) Consumer credit was a blaringly obvious space which was causing people pain.
  • (8) The date was 8 March 2005 and that night, at home in Wembley Triangle, the young Sterling turned on the television to see Chelsea playing Barcelona , under the floodlights at Stamford Bridge, with the Champions League anthem blaring.
  • (9) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
  • (10) In the past, the broadcasts typically blared messages about alleged North Korean government mismanagement, human rights abuses and the superiority of South Korean-style democracy, as well as world news, weather forecasts and K-pop.
  • (11) Egypt hails $8bn Suez canal expansion as gift to world at lavish ceremony Read more A few streets over, patriotic songs are blaring at a celebration of the expansion of the Suez Canal, a megaproject hyped by the government as a turning point for the Egyptian economy.
  • (12) South Korean troops, near about 10 sites where loudspeakers started blaring propaganda on Friday , were on the highest alert, but had not detected any unusual movement along the border, said an official from Seoul’s Defense Ministry, who refused to be named, citing office rules.
  • (13) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
  • (14) I’ve never seen so many police here, against the blare of sirens.
  • (15) It would be intriguing to know where he draws the line now – among the covers he and Andy Allo recorded was an old song of his, I Love U in Me, which is hardly Sunday school fare, while a journalist invited to Paisley Park to hear his recent album Plectrumelectrum was startled to see Prince run from the room when a particularly spicy lyric he’d “forgotten about” blared from the speakers – but his answer is a little vague.
  • (16) There is little sign that the country faces yet another fateful election next Sunday, except for a couple of posters in support of the ruling Justice and Development party, or AKP, and a solitary election van trundling through the streets blaring AKP’s campaign messages through the rows of immaculate yellow and beige housing blocks.
  • (17) There were three fans sporting hooky Liverpool replica shirts outside the Copacabana Palace hotel, where the delegation from the Uruguayan Football Association were deliberating their next move, on Thursday morning as Pharrell Williams’ Happy blared out over a neighbouring cafe’s loudspeaker system on permanent loop.
  • (18) In a week that has seen at least 40 die and escalating violence in Homs, the country's third largest city, state radio and private stations owned by regime cronies have been blaring out songs exalting Bashar al-Assad as "Abu Hafez", suggesting his son Hafez could succeed him, or anointing him president for "all eternity".
  • (19) A pledge to “make America great again”, the Rolling Stones song You Can’t Always Get What You Want blaring in the background.
  • (20) If this scoreline stands, I am sure the blaring misses will be unnoticed by the general public, who will instead be abuzz over that disallowed goal.

Blase


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anger is also being expressed in different genres and forms these days, add Blase and O'Brien.
  • (2) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
  • (3) The recombinant BLase was expressed in Bacillus subtilis and purified to homogeneity.
  • (4) The HFPA are altogether blase about The Master , previously tipped as an awards frontrunner, which now crucially misses out on a best film or director nod.
  • (5) Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Huppert was starring in Elle, an audacious masterpiece whose hot-potato plot (woman is relatively blase about sexual assault) masks an empowering and radical core.
  • (6) "People have had enough of the government's blase attitude towards civilian deaths when the perpetrators are the Taliban or al-Qaida," he said.
  • (7) To a nation of travellers already blase about Paris to Marseille in three hours, the line offers Paris to Luxembourg in two, Frankfurt in four, and Munich in six hours.
  • (8) Emily Phillips, a professional songwriter and mother to two daughters, Scarlett, seven, and Celeste, three, worked for three years trying to get Conway primary school up and running when she became concerned by a lack of primary school places in her area, and Hammersmith and Fulham council's blase assumption that this would be dealt with by "bulging" classes.
  • (9) I really love it.” He is blase about the attention, but a bit baffled by it.
  • (10) I covered much of their early rise for the NME and, unlike their peers who tried to act blase, the Kaisers were never able to hide how much they enjoyed success.
  • (11) South Koreans have had the barking hound on their doorstep for 60 years now, and have grown blase.
  • (12) But after a while you almost get blase at having Lucas or Zlatan around the place.
  • (13) He had an incredibly blase attitude to controlling birds of prey,” said Jones.
  • (14) Using human parathyroid hormone (13-34) and p-nitroanilides of peptidyl glutamic acid and aspartic acid, we found a marked difference between BLase and V8 protease, EC 3.4.21.9, although both proteases showed higher reactivity for glutamyl bonds than for aspartyl bonds.
  • (15) Blase cyclists can be seen negotiating the high-speed free-for-all that is the Place de la Concorde while puffing a cigarette and calling a friend.
  • (16) The main effect observed was limb paresis, which in some sheep was body side blased.
  • (17) Stories of industry racism are now so well known it's easy to become blase about them, and many come from the few successful black models in the business.
  • (18) You can’t become blase because you just have to look at the teams that have gone down this year and look at what we have done,” he said.
  • (19) This protease, which we propose to call BLase (glutamic acid-specific protease from B. licheniformis ATCC 14580), was characterized enzymatically.
  • (20) The findings clearly indicate that BLase can be classified as a serine protease.

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