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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.

Roar


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
  • (v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
  • (v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  • (v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
  • (v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  • (n.) The sound of roaring.
  • (n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
  • (n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
  • (n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
  • (n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (3) As Llewellyn and others reached for their briefcases Ashdown roared that nobody was going anywhere.
  • (4) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
  • (5) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
  • (6) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
  • (7) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
  • (8) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (9) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
  • (10) By day, the whooshing of skis and scratching of poles and the roar of wind past their ears dominate the explorers' world.
  • (11) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
  • (12) Mexican striker Matias Vuoso and Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal both scored twice in a game that roared from end to end and never let up in intensity.
  • (13) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
  • (14) A little roar went up, just for a moment, and then died away almost as quickly.
  • (15) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
  • (16) Stock markets roared ahead and sterling tumbled after the Bank of England and European Central Bank took unprecedented steps to quash investor fears that they were preparing to reduce monetary stimulus.
  • (17) Those fed Pb only developed pharyngeal and laryngeal paralysis ("roaring") whereas those fed Zn only and Pb and Zn together developed the same clinical syndrome which included swelling at the epiphyseal region of the long bones, stiffness and lameness.
  • (18) Analysis of official statistics by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) at Manchester University backs up Martin's hunch: London and the south-east have come roaring out of the crash, and now account for a greater share of growth than they did even during the boom.
  • (19) Price remembers a parliamentary Christmas party where Jo and the children raced through parliament, their faces painted as tigers as they roared at each other.
  • (20) The roar was equally loud when Victor Moses had the first shot two minutes in.

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