I could hear hoots of laughter coming from the next room.
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Hoots
//huːts//
Synonyms for "hoots" (228 found)
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Sample sentences
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The owl hoots.
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The owl hoots 'woo woo'.
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And then the happenings of some wild and remote place will be heard by electronic ears and recorded and catalogued in a digital language of waves. Crests and troughs carrying the muted hoots of owls, the lonesome calls of wolves, the wind raking through spruce boughs, or a kind of purity and peacefulness beyond description, glabrous as glare ice and just as condensed.
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