Roaring

//ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ//

"Roaring" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The cold north wind was roaring outside.

We heard tigers roaring in the distance.

The commander was roaring at his soldiers.

The bullet train came roaring past.

His words set everybody roaring with laughter.

If the thunder isn't roaring, the peasant won't cross himself.

The lion is roaring.

I am roaring like a lion.

Fear drives him, he plucks up courage and throws himself into the roaring waves; his powerful arms cut through the flow, and his God feels pity.

It was too bad that we had to take the subway home after the concert, because the underground rattling and roaring destroyed almost all of our musical impressions.

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“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”

The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.

But finally we came to a river with hundreds of boats upon it, and there was a magnificent bridge, and on the other bank was a roaring city, and through the fog the rain came down thick as the tears of the angels. "That 's London," said I.

Some of the worst offenders were rounded up and sent home as Rozhestvensky's health began to recover. But this further diminished the fleet's manpower. And, at the same time, many of the officers were quite-happily unaware that anything was going on, having discovered that Madagascar did a roaring trade in various high-strength drugs. One officer had brought^([sic – meaning bought?]) 2,000 cigarettes, and they were found to all be filled with opium, much to the joy of all those who could get their hands on them before they were confiscated.

[…] those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.

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