(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.
Stentorian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Led by the redoubtable Frances O'Grady, the TUC's stentorian No 2, a succession of union leaders and VIPs addressed the throng in time-honoured fashion.
(2) No doubt she would have been suitably scathing of the few less stentorian, more appeasing notes.
(3) Russell Crowe looks on stentorian form as the pre-flood patriarch, reeling from portents of the apocalypse and determined to protect his wife (Jennifer Connelly), his adopted daughter (Emma Watson) and the animals of the world.
(4) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(5) That stentorian gravitas has served Cheney well, but I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of his personality.
(6) Stentorian snoring and diurnal somnolence are the cardinal manifestations and should always lead to an examination during sleep.
(7) From Sinn Féin’s point of view, the stentorian attitude of Foster, refusing to stand aside, and the growing feeling among their own supporters that they have been weak and pushed around, has made it necessary for them to take a tough line.
(8) A stentorian American voice would utter the legend: “This election meets the highest standards of Scottish democratic excellence.” But the big Benjamins would assuredly accrue from the dodgier democracies such as Russia and China.
(9) Ludus played a fretful and subsequently jazz-inflected post-punk, their singer's playfully stentorian vocals (which Morrissey admired, and in part mimicked a few years later) describing vignettes charged with the sexual politics of the time and occasionally veering into ecstatic screeches.
(10) The best part was hitchhiking up to London for a night out (her brilliantly posh and stentorian voice meant that her lifts tended to keep their hands to themselves, fearing serious consequences if they didn't).
(11) We like the way the riff decelerates to a sludgy pace, and the booming, stentorian singing, which is of the Peter Murphy-announcing-that-Bela-Lugosi-is-dead school of portentous vocalese.
(12) Tuck got progressively drunker as the night went on, and Roberts dealt with it in a kind of disapproving stentorian way.