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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.

Growl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
  • (v. t.) To express by growling.
  • (n.) The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Exerting himself at high altitude has left his voice a throaty growl.
  • (2) Feline affective defense behavior, characterized mainly by autonomic arousal, ear retraction, growling, hissing and paw striking, was elicited by electrical stimulation of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH).
  • (3) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.
  • (4) Separatists have squatted in his office, masked gunmen roam the streets with impunity, and Russia – the giant, growling neighbour – threatens to invade.
  • (5) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
  • (6) Injections of carbachol (CCh) through a chronic cannula into the midbrain periaqueductal grey region (PAG) of the cat induced an emotional-defensive response (EDR) which was evaluated by duration and number of growls in a 30-min experimental session.
  • (7) Territorial males produce grunts, moans and growls during courtship.
  • (8) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
  • (9) The kind of thing that makes me growl, "Too much film school, not enough living."
  • (10) The somatic and autonomic displays which accompanied defensive behavior were similar between stimuli, consisting of mydriasis, piloerection, growling, hissing and paw strikes.
  • (11) pupil dilatation, piloerection, retraction of the ears, arching of the back, hissing, howling and growling) known as the 'defence reaction'.
  • (12) That’s not what I want!’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s no mad staring or growled threats with the real-life Statham.
  • (13) Another was interrupted by men making growling noises and pouncing gestures when she stood up to speak in a leopard-print jacket .
  • (14) Julianne Moore was named best actress for her performance as a demented Hollywood diva in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, while Britain's Timothy Spall won the best actor prize for his grunting, growling masterclass as marine painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's period drama Mr Turner .
  • (15) Affective defense behavior elicited from the midbrain central gray is characterized by marked vocalization such as hissing and growling, pupillary dilatation, urination and piloerection.
  • (16) Suddenly she disappeared behind my parked car and I heard a squeal, followed by guttural growling.
  • (17) Structural analysis of the upper respiratory tract of O. hannah suggests that the "growl" is produced by tracheal diverticula functioning as low-frequency resonating chambers.
  • (18) "It wasn't the best first half, but when it cut back to the studio and they were moaning and groaning and saying there was nothing to say about the game it kind of made me growl at the TV wishing I'd been paid to go on holiday by work to do the slightest bit of analysis.
  • (19) DLH injections within a greater extent of the PAG elicited other facio-vocal changes characteristic of defence, such as hissing or growling, but these were not accompanied by significant cardiovascular changes.
  • (20) Jack Whitehall won king of comedy for the third year running, and I found myself shouting out “shame!” and, inexplicably, “class war!” When the filming ended people started asking me to do interviews, but I growled them away because he’d gone and I was just me.

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