(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.
Thunder
Definition:
(n.) The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
(n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
(n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
(n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
(n.) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
(n.) Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
(n.) To utter violent denunciation.
(v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Thunder now have a 2-0 series lead but can't afford to let their guard down considering they're about to face a wounded and fired up Kobe Bryant at home.
(2) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
(3) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(4) Last year, Feinstein thundered against the NSA monitoring Merkel, even as the senator remained a staunch supporter of most other NSA surveillance, to include its domestic operations.
(5) The Clippers rallied at the end of the period, outscoring the Thunder 8-0 to take a 90-86 lead.
(6) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
(7) The Thunder, who seemed in perfect position to take a commanding 3-1 series lead until the game's final minutes instead find themselves tied 2-2 with an incredibly talented Clippers team that has luck, momentum and even public sentiment on its side.
(8) Washington always throws its weight around with willing sidekicks like Australia, but the convention is to do it in private, not thunder unpredictably in public about what you might or might not do, and issue contradictory statements about bilateral agreements agreed between leaders.
(9) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
(10) Their massed voices roll like thunder across the open-sided, scaffold-roofed stadium.
(11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
(12) 2.28am GMT 15 mins Saborio seeks to redeem himself with a spot of helpful cheating, completely failing to take his distance at a Galaxy free-kick and somehow getting away with it - blocking the set piece near half-way and launching an RSL counter that concludes with Kyle Beckerman thundering a shot towards goal from the edge of the box.
(13) Durant’s Thunder team-mate Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers also withdrew because of health concerns.
(14) The Warriors and Thunder gave us the best game of the year There's usually no better way to ensure a game won't be memorable than to hype it up as a potential playoff preview.
(15) In the three weeks since McCrory, a Republican, signed the legislation, a battery of prominent businesses and celebrities have issued thundering denunciations.
(16) The Xbox One has beat-em-'up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder.
(17) We have seen a complete failure on the part of the Turnbull government to properly negotiate resettlement arrangements with PNG and to negotiate resettlement arrangements with third country options,” he thundered.
(18) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(19) A thunderous mix of vuvuzelas and roars from the crowd greeted the former South African president as he was driven across the pitch in a golf cart with his wife Graça Machel.
(20) The product of energy flux and efficiency implies the unexpected conclusion that shocks occurring on atmospheric entry of cometary meteors and micrometeorites and from thunder may have been the principal energy sources for pre-biological organic synthesis on the primitive earth.