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Sentences starting with roar

Roar after roar burst out, stronger and stronger, nearer and nearer; and at last, when we closed up upon the multitude massed in the open area in front of the tavern, the crash of sound was deafening. [5]

Sentences ending with roar

The wind, blowing with heavy, steady blast into his face, sickened him with enduring, sweet odor, and filled his ears with a hollow, rushing roar. [13]
What he said was lost in the roar. [9]
The Parrotts began to roar. [9]
From the depths there rose a long-drawn rumbling roar. [13]
He was just the man, if he could not have dislodged Priam by a writ of ejectment, to have invented the wooden horse, and then to have made Paris the hero of some ridiculous story that would have set all Asia in a roar. [4]
But he had the head and shoulders of a lion, and even the lion's roar. [9]
How have you tamed our lion, and how sweetly does he roar! [11]
Before long it sounded as though the multitude must have practiced the mad chant which swelled to a perfect roar. [10]
I heard a shriek through the roar. [11]
In another place she heard, above her head, the sound of rushing waters, which then fell into the abyss beneath with a loud roar. [10]

Short sentences using roar

The roar was deafening. [5]

Sentences containing roar two or more times

The roar of the wind, with its strange knell and the re-crashing echoes, mingled with the roar of the flooding rain, and all seemingly were deadened and drowned in a world of sound. [13]
Roar, roar, thou storm, stream, stream, rushing rain, rage, waves, and destroy the meadows, swallow up houses and villages! [10]

More example sentences with the word roar in them

Their cries mingled with the crackling and snapping of the dry wood, and the roar of the flames, with the trumpet calls of the awakening troops, and the beating of drums. [10]
I rode down with a gentleman to the Ocean House, the other day, to see the sea horses, and also to listen to the roar of the surf, and watch the ships drifting about, here, and there, and far away at sea. [5]
After that there was a roar of merriment over Mr. Storer cracking mottoes with a certain Lady Jane; and how young Lord Stavordale, on a wager, tilted the candles and set fire to the drawing-room at Lady Julia's drum, the day before. [9]
Faster and faster, vying with one another, they moved at the double or at a trot, vanishing amid the clouds of dust they raised and making the air ring with a deafening roar of mingling shouts. [2]
The roar of voices subsided--he waited for it--and silence was broken only by the crackle of the burning building, the tramp of Montcalm's soldiers in Mountain Street, and the tolling of the cathedral bell. [11]
In the mountain villages of Switzerland, and along the roads, one has always the roar of the torrent in his ears. [5]
It is no use to call; no one can hear, for it is all roar outside, and these walls are solid and very thick. [11]
In front of us was a huge fire of birchlogs; and over it we could see the top of the falls glistening in the moonlight; and the roar of the falls, and the brawling of the stream near us, filled all the ancient woods. [4]
He would wait until a story was well under way, and then annihilate the point of it with a cutting cynicism and set the table in a roar of laughter. [9]
Ordinarily when an unsigned poem sweeps across the continent like a tidal wave whose roar and boom and thunder are made up of admiration, delight, and applause, a dozen obscure people rise up and claim the authorship. [5]
She listened breathlessly to the sounds from the city, and now a distant blare of trumpets drowned the dull roar of the ordnance and the sharp rattle of the culverins. [10]
Lindau was about to roar back at him with some furious protest, but March put his hand on his shoulder imploringly, and Lindau turned to him to say in German: "But it is infamous--infamous! [8]
At any other time the swing of the cars would have lulled him to sleep, and the rattle and clank of wheels and rails, the roar of the whirling iron would have only been cheerful reminders of swift and safe travel. [5]
From time to time also the deep roar of the king's war-lions [See Diodorus, 1. [10]
The peal of thunder, which so swiftly followed the lightning, also startled them and when, soon after, a second one shook the house with its crashing, rattling roar, Herr Ernst went out to wake the chief packer. [10]
What a roar they made, rushing through the air! [5]
Though I sat there in the awful silence (the roar of water and thunder only emphasized the stillness) full half an hour, I was not encouraged by another nibble. [4]
In an instant the whole Court had rushed to the spot on hearing the lion's roar of rage, which grew louder and louder, and could be heard at no small distance, and then Alexander's shout for help. [10]
A stroke of the vast paw, a smothered roar as the teeth gave into the neck of the beautiful Fatima, and then--no more. [11]
The roar of the torrent is maddening, then, for his imagination is assisting; the physical pain it inflicts is exquisite. [5]
The wall threw the sound across, and could have made no greater roar if it had slipped in avalanche. [13]
Always the roar, the shuddering of the air. [4]
The noise of the rushing mules had now become a distant roar, like a whirlwind which has swept by. [9]
And then presently the roar would reach me, and answering puffs along the line of the fort. [9]
Could it be the roar of the thousand wheels and the ten thousand footsteps jarring and trampling along the stones of the neighboring city? [6]
Only once did the roar of approval reach a higher pitch, and that was after the battle was ended, at what succeeded. [10]
His room quivered, the roar filled all the air. [4]
For a moment the roar and yelling ceased, and then began again, but in a much milder form. [10]
The roar of the Rapids below was a sonorous accompaniment to Ingolby's wild thoughts. [11]
She stared at the Prince in stupid amazement, which so amused her ruffianly son, that he burst into a roar of laughter. [5]
Then one of the lions was pierced by a lance, and sank with a dying roar of rage and pain that was heard above all the tumult. [10]
Another blank for the knight, a roar of applause for me. [5]
Suddenly, high above the jubilant roar and thunder of the revel, broke the clear peal of a bugle-note. [5]
He listened until the hum grew into a roar, and then, breaking the spell, once more he heard it low and clear. [13]
Yellow dust like the gloom of the cave, but not so changeless, drifted away on the wind; the roar clapped in echo from the cliff, returned, went back, and came again to die in the hollowness. [13]
The driver hailed the farmer, and they exchanged Gaelic repartee which set all the hay-makers in a roar, and caused the Indian maid to darkly and sweetly beam upon us. [4]
The roar of the disappearing stream dinned in their ears. [13]
The roar of the crowd died to an ominous moaning behind them. [9]
The guns of that battery were being fired continually one after another with a deafening roar, enveloping the whole neighborhood in powder smoke. [2]
Louder--louder--next minute it swelled swiftly up into a roar of shoutings, barkings, tramplings, and swept by like a cyclone. [5]
It startled and surprised him to hear them break into a vast roar of laughter. [5]
The river is strewn with bowlders, big and little, through which the amber water rushes with an unceasing thunderous roar, now plunging down in white falls, then swirling round in dark pools. [4]
The howl of storms, the roar and clash of waves, the crack and crash of the falling thunderbolt,--these of course made themselves heard as they do to mortal ears. [6]
The shouting grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army of several thousand men could produce. [2]
The roar was still dominant, but far off and softened, and did not crush the ear. [4]
There were the steady roar of wheels and the tramping of feet without, but within was the stillness of death. [4]
Suddenly Venters was startled by a low, rumbling roar--so low that it was like the roar in a sea-shell. [13]
The prisoner was standing at the window, pressing her brow against the iron bars and listening to the lute played by her lover, which sounded, amid the turmoil of the other prisoners, like a bell above the roar of thunder and the storm. [10]
Suddenly the strange sound of a far-off whistling and thud was heard, followed by a boom of cannon blending into a dull roar that set the windows rattling. [2]
The City seems so much more in earnest; its business, its rush, its roar, are such serious things, sights, sounds. [14]
If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: 'James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please;' but put the mate in his place and he would roar out: 'Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! [5]
In that moment she saw him at the head of armies, from the South, driving the Yankee hordes northward and still northward until the roar of the lakes warns them of annihilation. [9]
Her answer could scarcely be heard in the roar and the riot surrounding the hut. [11]
A low roar rose from the leaves of the forest, and the spruces swished in the rising wind. [13]
Boom, burst, crash, roar, storm, bellow, blow, thunder, explosion; howl, cry, shout, yell, groan; battle, hell. [5]
Tarboe gave a roar, and called to Joan to take the tiller. [11]
It was his roar which had come to Harrik through the distance and the night. [11]
There was the roar of the great guns, the screaming of the carronade slides, the rattle of musketry, the groans of the dying, the shouts of his victorious sailors, the crash of the main-mast as it fell upon the bulwarks. [11]
Ay, and will roar again, through forty years of widowhood! [9]
Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had already passed. [2]
It was a quiet place where they lay, but they might have heard--if hear they could--the loud, continuous roar of the Deerfield, and the stirring of the long grass on that sunny slope. [4]
Now--but here Barbara's quiet observation suddenly ended; the air was shaken by the roar of cannon from the bastions of the citadel, and the signals of the warders' horns blended with the thunder of the artillery. [10]
Besides, an eventful period, full of the beating of drums, the blare of trumpets, the rattle of musketry and roar of cannon might be expected. [10]
From the point over the Horseshoe Fall our friends, speaking not much, but more and more deeply moved, strolled along in the lovely forest, in a rural solemnity, in a local calm, almost a seclusion, except for the ever-present shuddering roar in the air. [4]
The gun rang out with a deafening metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke showing the spot where it burst. [2]
Male alligators roar or bellow during the same season. [1]
When he hit one fairly there would be a leviathan-like roar and a churning of the river into suds. [9]
In the distance, one could see a long wavering line of torches drifting down the main street, and could hear the throbbing of the bass drum, the clash of cymbals, the squeaking of a fife or two, and the faint roar of remote hurrahs. [5]
Then, all at once, there came a great roar, as it were, from the very heart of the mill--a deep diapason, dug out of the throat of the hills: the big whistle. [11]
What a roar of vulgar laughter there was! [5]
A faint roar of trampling hoofs came to Jane's ears, and gradually swelled; low, rolling clouds of dust began to rise above the sage. [13]
At the end of three miles a loud roar ahead warned us that we were approaching rapids, falls, and cascades. [4]
The distant roar of the yelling crowd was audible even there. [2]
Then the singing of the wind in the caves drowned the swift roar of rustling leaves; then the song swelled to a mourning, moaning wail; then with the gathering power of the wind the wail changed to a shriek. [13]
Above the roar of the waters she listened for his voice. [9]
Leaning against one of the timbers and half seated, with the softened roar of the city in his ears, the lights gleaming on the heights, the river flowing dark and silent, he began to be conscious of his situation. [4]
Above the roar of the storm now rose the shrieks of the marquise, the shouts of "Stop thief! [10]
Above the roar of the car-wheels we heard his nagging inquiries. [4]
Oh, those guns of Sumter, how they roar in your head! [9]
Banging and slamming of shutters; smashing of windows and the ringing clash of falling glass; clatter of flying feet along the halls; shrieks, supplications, dumb moanings of despair, within, hoarse shouts of command outside; cracklings and mappings, and the windy roar of victorious flames! [5]
The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd. [2]
Above the roar of London, the pop pop pop! [9]
The mighty roar of London was round them, like the sound of an unseen ocean, yet every footfall on the pavement below might be heard distinctly, in that unfrequented street. [14]
In the transports of his wrath he sent forth a roar, enough to shake the very hills. [4]
It was possible now to hear the roar of the cataract. [4]
The stream was now swollen, and rushed in a deep and rapid current over the ledges, through the rocky straits, plunging at last in tumult and foam, with loud, continuous roar, into the depths below the cliff from which it tumbled. [6]
This dragon did not bellow and roar and lash his tail when he was roused, but he stood up, and there seemed to emanate from him a fire which frightened poor Milly Skinner, upset though she was by the news of Cynthia's dismissal. [9]
Save this roar, no sound reached him, except now and then the rumble of a wagon on the bridge, or the muffled far-off voices of some chance passers on the road. [4]
Eight or nine months after the distress of the torrents had departed from me, the roar and thunder of the streets of Paris brought it all back again. [5]
Never could he mistake the roar echoing there; it was the war-cry of Egyptian soldiers, the blast of the trumpet summoning the warriors, the clank of weapons, and the battle-shouts of hostile hordes. [10]
Lienhard's deep voice mingled with her furious cries until the roar of the sea, on whose rocky shore the hurricane must have dashed her, drowned every other sound, and rolled over her, sometimes in scorching crimson, sometimes in icy crystal waves. [10]
Behind you two mechanics have started the engines with a deafening roar, above which are heard the hoarse commands of the captain as he grinds in his gears. [9]
But through how many hours had there been the sickening monotony of artillery and rifle-fire, the bruit of angry metal, in which the roar of angrier men was no more than a discord in the guttural harmony. [11]
The people went mad for pride in him, and joy and delight, and you couldn't hear yourself think, for the roar and boom and crash of applause. [5]
The cannon roar loud, the sword flashes bright, Who'll dare meet the stroke of my falchion? [10]
Of course I lost my temper and blew it off in a way to be heard above the roar of the tossing waters. [5]
From all sides, like the roar of the sea, were heard the rattle of wheels, the tramp of feet, and incessant shouts of anger and abuse. [2]
They did not know it, but they knew that the air shuddered, and as they skirted the grounds along the way to the foot-bridge the roar grew in their stunned ears. [4]
He himself scarcely knew what he was saying, and heard his own voice as vaguely as though it were the distant roar of waves. [10]
Nay, if a joke were uttered in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. [4]

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