What's the difference between blare and raucous?

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.

Raucous


Definition:

  • (a.) Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.
  • (2) At the final whistle there were raucous celebrations in Gijón's El Molinón stadium and all over Algeria.
  • (3) Last month, the Greek parliament, the scene of often raucous debate since the election of the extremists in June 2012, voted to cut off annual state funds of around €800,000 (£660,000) to which the party would have been entitled as of this year.
  • (4) In a memo to AP staff, AP President Gary Pruitt remembered Niedringhaus as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
  • (5) There's a brief lull as Seattle try to just get their collective foot on the ball and try to maybe calm what's still a fantastically raucous crowd.
  • (6) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
  • (7) In contrast, Trump sent Dr Ben Carson to North Dakota’s raucous state convention last week and is scheduled to send Sarah Palin to Wyoming’s convention next week.
  • (8) The atmosphere had become raucous and City nearly enjoyed an instant response when Touré addressed a 25-yard free-kick after Kevin Wimmer’s foul, for which the central defender was booked.
  • (9) The Champions League is an extremely difficult competition but we are on the right track.” The Serie A leaders were undaunted by the pulsating atmosphere created by 70,000 Dortmund fans inside the Westfalenstadion, silencing the raucous home crowd early on when Tevez, who scored in the first leg, was left with far too much space 25 metres out and unleashed an unstoppable shot into the top corner.
  • (10) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
  • (11) But the net result is something fresh and new – not to mention often raucously entertaining.
  • (12) I don’t want their money Bernie Sanders Clinton was followed in the speaking order by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who received almost as raucous a response as the former secretary of state from the packed house.
  • (13) He and his entourage would spend raucous weekends in luxury resorts, paying with wads of cash pulled carelessly from their pockets.
  • (14) The Brazilian did not appear hamstrung as he samba-ed his way through the post‑match celebrations, the players only returning to the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the city centre just before 3am with the raucous party prolonged thereafter.
  • (15) The steady beat of drums and chanted slogans made for a raucous but largely peaceful atmosphere, with banners everywhere mocking Park and calling for her to step down immediately In a televised news conference on Friday, deputy prime minister Lee Joon-Sik had voiced concerns at the possibility of “illegal collective action or violence” and urged the protestors to respect police barriers.
  • (16) The brief exchange with reporters was cut short by Clinton after a serious of shouted questions from reporters led to a raucous and, at times, aggressive atmosphere in the small bike store in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she had been meeting with local small business owners.
  • (17) In 2006 he renewed his creative spark and paid homage to the folk hero Pete Seeger by assembling a new band to play traditional folk and protest songs on an album called We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions , a move so successful that the raucous spontaneity and home-made texture of the music was allowed to influence all his subsequent efforts.
  • (18) He remembers the “raucous laugh and infectious good humour” of a “political soulmate”.
  • (19) You wouldn’t necessarily expect an event involving four politicians discussing the future of Britain’s relationship with the EU to make for raucous entertainment.
  • (20) Simmonds, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, was again cheered home by a raucous crowd.

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