How To Use Roaring In A Sentence

  • Rob also reckons that the south-west coast of Ireland has some of the best sailing grounds in the world - particularly around Roaring Water Bay in West Cork.
  • It's a poor teacher who can only control the class by roaring at the children.
  • They got comfortable on the rocks, with the waves roaring in, lapping at their feet, they stroked their bellies and chattered on about the sea, about stealing a small fishing boat when they should have been in school. September 17 , 2004
  • The brant and bernicle beat their way North against the roaring winds, and man with a different instinct pressed on towards the West. The Girl from Keller's
  • You can just imagine the wind howling round outside while everyone crowds into a stone cottage, a fire roaring in the grate and a group of friends simply playing together for the sheer fun of it.
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  • So, have fun eating, drinking and being merry whether it's by a roaring fire or a slightly less picturesque roaring radiator.
  • The Reavers sat near the fire pit they had gathered; one lit the kindling, sparking a roaring fire in the middle of the morning.
  • From the roaring 20's to the beaches of Normandy, it has always had a certain panache.
  • We could not talk above the roaring thunder of machines making material.
  • The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
  • We've got some rip-roaring combat in the movie I've made.
  • The boiler came on with a burp and a quiet roaring, startling the misshapen shadow behind the torch. THE LAST RAVEN
  • We also botanized along the edges of the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, the Tremont Road, the Little River Road, and the Blue Ridge Parkway and spur between Oconoluftee and Black Camp Gap.
  • To show us that success is ‘hollow,’ we see hollow Patrick a roaring success at 27, a vice president at a major Wall Street firm with a six-figure salary.
  • And the rising sun met the falling star and flashed into coruscant life, a roaring tide of fiery might that batted away cold beams and sent an incandescent lance of godly light in retaliation.
  • “Poets As Bad Guy, then and now:” I like to enter small jerkwater towns/with engine roaring, then rock to a stop/and park before a group of local clowns/to make a cigarette-dangling entrance. Ron offen | 2 poems and more about… « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • In cold weather, when there is a roaring fire in the range, the water frequently becomes so hot that it "steams" out of open faucets. General Science
  • ‘Can I say a big ‘thank you’ for the flyers… they are a roaring success, and are currently being mailshotted to clients and on display in enterprise and community centres.
  • Dr. Brian Little had attendees roaring with laughter with his psychological analysis of extraverts, introverts and ambiverts and how we are more efficient together.
  • Round her, and for a mile away, they fought like rams and they fought like dogs and they fought like tigers, and over the roaring siren sounds of the fight the gulls flew like the fume of it, screaming and swooping and circling in spirals, and through everything like the continuous thud-thud of a propeller came the dunch of tons of flesh meeting tons of flesh head on, shoulder on, or side on. The Beach of Dreams
  • In the front matter of Moby-Dick, William Paley's Natural Theology is quoted: "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival
  • As the wind howled in the chimney, we sat on a sofa in front of a roaring fireplace.
  • Now I'm all for anything that celebrates blatant carnivorism, and I'd love to see PETA's apoplectic reaction, but come on: I've been inside a Burger King and while the amalgam of scent that assaults your nose may not be quite as revolting as the aforementioned love sweat of the Mongolian Cud-Spitting Yak, it certainly doesn't conjure up images of sweet lovin 'on a plush rug in front of a roaring fire. Scent of Love
  • The soft noises of slumber coming from the kitchen were quite comforting until a very alarming, roaring noise boomed down from the hills behind the post. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
  • The lady was blue, and in great pain from cramp, and the poor unweaned infant was roaring for the nourishment which had failed. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • That passed for big-time entertainment in those days, even in the so-called Roaring Twenties.
  • And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
  • Any second-hand bookseller or charity shop can testify to a roaring trade in the once read and discarded romance volume.
  • The Reds and Rockies played that "nothing to lose" role, while St. Louis was the NL's big second-half team — like Oakland, a "chugger" — roaring past the sinking Cubs for a playoff berth. USATODAY.com - Mets may be in position to 'chug' into playoffs
  • Calamity Jane is an action-packed, rip-roaring roller coaster of a show with one of the most witty and memorable musical scores.
  • And there was McPhee, roaring in to slide home a vital goal as the ground erupted.
  • From the Sun-Sentinel: MILWAUKEE -- To complete the ultimate quest of "The Lord of the Rings," Carl Hostetter has left his home in Maryland to navigate roaring rivers and cross vast plains — all to stride bravely through looming masoned gates in search of a nearly hidden glass door. March 2004
  • To dirt, chaos, maharajas, beggars, cows on the road, roaring rivers, fervid sunshine, unpredictability, and loud laughter.
  • If we've come to the point where the banterers are having to explain and apologise for their jokes, then presumably the joy of the thing – the roaring of rape humour across a crowded internet, that beery, leery, Friday-night amour – has been lost? The joke's on them
  • What I didn't know was then as each one ran out, Matt was chucking them onto the roaring bonfire to be devoured by the flames.
  • There were a few heavy downfalls, but even they proved a boon to the indoor traders who did a roaring trade when the crowds scurried for shelter in the stands.
  • But the black smoke of the granary belching against the white hills, or the kyloe, houghed and maimed, roaring in its agony, or the fugitive brought bloody on his knees among the rocks -- God's mercy! John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • Abbey Road The London Souls' self-titled debut album builds on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals. New Power Trio Muscles Through
  • By that low standard, the current Secretary of Agriculture is a roaring success.
  • The Second Show - with the bigger crowd and less interference from the TV people - is the superior performance; it's far more energetic and rip-roaring.
  • It was dark but we heard a roaring sound and then lights of the cars disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was a Valkryie, a succubus - a dark-eyed angel roaring through the sky in the path of vengeance unknowable.
  • I see myself reclining by a roaring peat fire, glass of whisky in one hand, fat piece of shortbread in the other.
  • Watching silent twisters at a distance was far different from watching a giant roaring twister stalk them from less than three miles away.
  • One of the consolations - for gardeners - of the long, wet, dark winter evenings is to sit in front of a roaring fire with seed catalogues and plant lists, and dream of how the garden will look in the summer.
  • Rich and juicy aromas of ripe plum and black cherry with mild peppery scents offer mild flavours of clove before a rip-roaring juicy fruit bursts through leading to ripe yet firm tannins taking you on a long finish.
  • It was a hot sunny day and the ice-cream sellers were doing a roaring trade.
  • As this incantation proceeds, small flickering tongues of fire start forth on every side; they soon rise higher and higher, roaring and crackling until, as Wotan disappears, they form a fiery barrier all around the sleeping Walkyrie: -- Stories of the Wagner Opera
  • That is how Mohamad and I ended up in the back of a four-by-four with Alan and a Philadelphia judge named Daniel L. Rubini, roaring down the middle of Palestine Street in a two-car convoy that was painfully, conspicuously, deafeningly American. Day of Honey
  • Bashir, who held an alms bowl in his left hand, moved toward the other student, who wore a skullcap with a childish design of roaring lions. The Omega Theory
  • The character of Dash is clearly intended to give young boys an entry point into the film and he is a roaring success, with older sister Violet filling the same part for the female crowd.
  • Based on these criteria, I must judge my experience as a panelist for the film festival group's annual list of notable Canadian films a roaring success.
  • James Henry Clark is pretty spry for a man whose caddie career began in the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and has spanned eight decades.
  • In front of a roaring fire, of course. The Sun
  • I remember not being able to stay in the theatre when the bikes came roaring up the road towards the woman and child.
  • It proved to be the lowest kind of music-ball down in the Loop district what they call burlesque nowadays-with sawdust on the floor, a great bar down one side of the hall doing a roaring trade, pit and gallery crowded with raucous toughs and their flash tarts, an atmosphere blue with smoke and a programme to match. Isabelle
  • Last year, his CD became a roaring success and saw the sagging career of another superstar being revived.
  • According to owner Ah Hua, who has been plying a roaring trade since he opened for business 14 years ago, the non-eatery feel is what makes the place so popular.
  • Five wicks create a tall flame like a blow torch which makes a soft roaring noise.
  • It was a hot sunny day and the ice-cream sellers were doing a roaring trade.
  • There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
  • The cruise ships reached their heyday during the roaring '20s, and then slowly began declining.
  • Soon they were all talking at once, rumbling and roaring as big - chested open-air men will, when whisky has whipped their taciturnity. Chapter 4
  • A rip-roaring romance that she would later be slightly ashamed of, she had made it up to tell her younger brother, Boris, while he was ill in bed. On Georgette Heyer « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Case in point is Alpino Vino (970-708-1120), a new spot just off the Gold Hill Express Lift that resembles a chalet airlifted from the Italian Alps. Diners in ski helmets huddle around cherry-wood tables and a roaring fireplace, sipping Tuscan reds ($15), while neatly groomed waiters bring plates of cured meats and fine cheeses ($15). Post-gazette.com - News
  • You can learn to sense this instinct and fan the glowing embers into a roaring blaze.
  • Turning the oven to its "broil" function starts up a roaring fire close to the broiler. Archive 2007-12-01
  • One bull after another was driven in roaring, and as here they are generally fierce and their horns not blunted as in Mexico, it is a much more dangerous affair. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
  • There are sleek leather sofas beside a roaring fire. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shells from both battleships were exploding deep in the heart of the BISMARCK, wrecking the engine rooms, destroying the fuel tanks and adding hundreds of tons of fuel to feed the great fires now raging in the entire mid-section of the ship, the roaring flames clearly visible through the great jagged gaps torn in the ship's side and armour-plating. The Lonely Sea
  • The roaring sea gradually calmed down.
  • Motor City in the shuttle roaring in the sky , if more than 200 miles per hour, not how to prevent them from the building hit?
  • In a roaring but strangely squeakily toned mumble of utter nonsensical gibberish, the round manchild asked me something I can only assume was about how my shopping went, to which I could think of no other reply except, "Fine, and you," before I loaded the conveyor belt with my few items that were to be sent frightfully into this employee's clumsily oversized hands. One Cent Baby
  • Now there's only one thing left to do after you vote as you gather your friends to watch Tuesday night's midterm election results: Get rip-roaring drunk. Lee Brenner: The Election Night Drinking Game: HyperVocal Edition
  • The cup was in Vivian's hand, Rudesheimer was roaring supernaculum louder than all; Vivian saw that the covetous Vivian Grey
  • A roaring fire, beams, hanging hams, a host with muttonchops? Times, Sunday Times
  • The roaring trade in pharmaceuticals online —from antibiotics to endless adverts for Viagra —demonstrates the willingness of many to make their own informed decisions about personal risk.
  • We'd stroll the whole crescent "U" of, say, Keizersgracht (Emperor's canal), past majestic gabled manses, cozy gabled houses, small boats with a few folk tippling rose and tour boats with tourists roaring beerily into the twilight. Barry Yourgrau: Walking with Joy: Amsterdam
  • Sergeant Todd was outside the square roaring and bayoneting with a professionalism that, even here, amazed Charlie.
  • The crowd was roaring from the start, moved by third-base coach Al Newman's ceremonial first pitch to Gardenhire. USATODAY.com - Yankees take series lead
  • The lad was already bare-foot, so without a second's hesitation, Darius leaped and fastened his arms about his knees, achieving the roaring splash of a cannonball.
  • At the roaring bonfire, skaters can warm up with hot chocolate.
  • Blue armour was visible, and the tramp of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm.
  • It's simply a roaring success on all levels; it's a genius piece of fiction.
  • The company has taken on retail managers, cashiers and assistants and is already doing a roaring trade.
  • Meanwhile, out-of-doors, you could hear the stamping and roaring of the crowd, goaded into a frenzy by repeated hymns, enfevered by its earnest desire for the Divine interposition, and growing more and more enervated by the delay. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
  • Their ensuing adventure is a rip-roaring treat capable of appealing to both adults and children alike, featuring a superb script and some terrific visual gags as well as some genuinely moving moments.
  • She is said to have made a roaring business out of extortion and prostitution.
  • It was dark but we heard a roaring sound and then lights of the cars disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the ideas evident in early German expressionism are applied to the simple design of two cars roaring down a dark and desolate road.
  • And these set forth like the blast of violent winds, that rushes earthward beneath the thunder of Zeus, and with marvellous din doth mingle with the salt sea, and therein are many swelling waves of the loud roaring sea, arched over and white with foam, some vanward, others in the rear; even so the Trojans arrayed in van and rear and shining with bronze, followed after their leaders. The Iliad
  • Inside are a cosy kitchen and a small sitting room with roaring fire and plush furnishings. Times, Sunday Times
  • California draws visionaries, seekers, nutters and pseudo-scientists, many with sci-fi dreams roaring in their ears.
  • It was dark but we heard a roaring sound and then lights of the cars disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
  • The club continue to cling to the dream of a fourth-placed Premier League finish, which would bring readmission to the Champions League and the promise of another rip-roaring adventure. Harry Redknapp says idea of Europa League at Tottenham leaves him cold
  • The bearers, the priests, and the ailing ones themselves had just intonated a canticle, the song of Bernadette, and all rolled along amid the besetting "Aves," so that the little carts, the litters, and the pedestrians descended the sloping road like a swollen and overflowing torrent of roaring water. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
  • The text enwreathing Leo's roaring image reads ‘Ars Gratia Artis’.
  • Mr. Turnbull was soon driving what he called a roaring trade. Mary Marston
  • JANIS: Other witnesses reported hearing the knifeman roaring and grunting as he slashed and stabbed his victims. CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2008
  • The diseases which are found to be hereditary in horses are scrofula, rheumatism, rickets, chronic cough, roaring, ophthalmia or inflammation of the eye, -- grease or scratches, bone spavin, curb, &c. The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals
  • The ogres, unable to see her, began to look around, still roaring and shouting in their coarse speech.
  • I believe Dickie is Lord Arden," Elfrida began, and I am not at all sure that she would not have gone on to give her reasons, including the whole story which the Mouldiestwarp had told to Dickie; but at that moment there was a roaring, rushing sound from inside the cave, and a flash of shiny silver gleamed across that dark gap in the hillside. Harding's Luck
  • Similar to those old loops local TV stations used to run when they went off the air for the holidays, you too can have your very own roaring holiday fire to impress your family and friends.
  • On the other hand, the Communist Manifesto is a rip-roaring statement of bold political action. Think Progress » Right-wing Texas Education Board accidentally bans popular children’s book author.
  • Not that she hadn't seen new sights in the Valley: eetees roaring along Figueroa Avenue in a Lincoln Navigator; eetee muckamucks cavorting in a swimming pool full of yellow slime; eetee grunts dead and bloated in an alleyway, lunch for a pack of feral dogs. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • The News of the World called the book "a rip-roaring account" and gave it four stars. UK Media Feels The Heat After Phone-Hack Scandal
  • Their laughters are mingled with the roaring sound of the mighty waves, which are much too eager to devour their easy preys.
  • To playback sounds of galloping, roaring and trumpeting, the horses, lions and jumbos enthralled the parents who had a tough time to spot their tots in the masked group.
  • It seems he has reserved this dune buggy strictly for visiting those planets where a bunch of aliens, themselves in dune buggies, are likely to come roaring over the hills.
  • When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • His rip-roaring display, capped by those two scores, earned him the Man of the Match tag.
  • Back in my quarters there was a fire roaring away in the grate.
  • Yes, Beery seems about as Mexican as a Taco Bell Chalupa, but I’d enjoy him in just about anything and this rip roaring actioner is no exception to the rule. 2010 February : Scrubbles.net
  • So just when we thought we had finally buried perhaps the worst libel ever to be flung our way, it has come roaring back to life, resurrected by the spinmeisters of Rome.
  • Not that I don't admire roaring entertainers, but a talk show requires some give and take, some exchange.
  • A distant sound, like that of the roaring of a lion, or not unsimilar to a large and deep gong of modern times, intimated the commencement of the ceremonial. Count Robert of Paris
  • They came back from the pub roaring drunk.
  • Even so, Leroy has created a lovely hotel, and one that's quite unlike any other - a mix of wacky curves and angles, secret spaces and roaring log fires.
  • This is beezer, "Im roaring me leg off!" at some of these everyday sayings we use & hear every day, where would you get it? Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • the icy river plunged, roaring, into the moulin's blue depths
  • His films haven't exactly been a roaring success, have they?
  • Hotels, guesthouses and bed and breakfast establishments had the no vacancy signs out early and pubs, restaurants and nightclubs enjoyed a roaring trade.
  • The only similar patter is the Roaring 20′s, but on a much smaller scale. Irrational Exhuberance and the Animal Spirits : Law is Cool
  • We can see the Benedictines roaring with laughter, twisting in their seats, their faces changing color like the chimera's skin was supposed to do.
  • They are DISGUSTED by the barbs of a blonde attorn-o-pundit and thrilled with the treachery of Roaring Al Gore. Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows
  • She liked it best, of course, on those rainy days when we were caught in front of a roaring fireplace.
  • On the streets, cars streaked by with their feral engines roaring and blood-red beams of lights sparkling, like demonic eyes from their exterior.
  • She threw more wood into the stove and soon the fire was roaring.
  • They meet on a bridge, with traffic roaring past.
  • It's a poor teacher who can only control the class by roaring at the children.
  • Their turn was an exciting and even terrifying one, when viewed from the audience; for, jumping about and roaring, they were made to appear as if about to destroy the slender little lady who performed with them and seemed to hold them in subjection only by her indomitable courage and a small riding-switch in her hand. CHAPTER XXVIII
  • And of all the unreckoned waves advancing, lifting their fugitive crests, and roaring, there certainly was not one that fell with weight so futile as his own. Springhaven
  • Wall Street watchers say the better-than-expected results show banks are roaring back to health. The Sun
  • Her face flushed rosily in the light of the roaring fire as he— Much Ado About Marriage
  • Considering this, it is not surprising that the dance's origins can be traced back to the roaring twenties - the time of the flappers and the first Miss America contest.
  • Roaring fires, a crèche, spa and pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • We could hear the lions roaring at the other end of the zoo.
  • We didn't just go through a recession in 2000; it was a recession that followed a rip-roaring expansion, in which ordinary workers made piles of money in the stock market.
  • Shops along Hennessy Road did a roaring trade selling water and canned drinks to thirsty crowds.
  • Tinnitus is a condition where the sufferer hears intermittent or continuous ringing, hissing, whistling, roaring or buzzing noises in one or both ears.
  • Quickfall got down to stripping nearly naked and had the audience roaring with laughter, whistles and applause.
  • There is, for a start, a very puckish sense of humour; and a big, infectious, roaring laugh.
  • Seeing it on a big screen with an audience - an appreciative audience roaring with laughter - is a vastly different experience than seeing it on TV and chuckling to oneself.
  • While Charlie Sheen was jubilantly waving his roof machete and roaring "Freedom!" earlier this week, his employers were doing the opposite. Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements
  • Caught in my imagining, I miss the U-turn of the escort truck and am jolted by the roaring four-by-four off-roading as it swerves around our vehicle.
  • He indicated the roaring brown water, scummed with white. The Falcons of Montabard
  • This time, it wasn't a quiet tinkle or a murmur - someone was roaring out Christmas carols.
  • MORE than 2,000 firefighters were last night battling a massive wildfire roaring through northern California. The Sun
  • Colourful umbrellas were sported in the queues, while informal "spaza" shops did a roaring beer trade. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • If it were out in the sticks, in a provincial town, this place would do a roaring trade.
  • Its not exactly digestives and a coffee by a roaring open fire but its heartwarming stuff tonight as real evidence of an ever growing and emerging hard rock scene takes root.
  • My missing for you is like a roaring river flowing day and night.
  • Dorothy Provine, 75, an actress who played the title outlaw in the film "The Bonnie Parker Story" and was the high-kicking flapper in the 1960s TV series "The Roaring 20's," died April 25 at a hospice near her home in Bremerton, Wash. Actress Dorothy Provine dies; played Bonnie Parker in film, Pinky Pinkham on TV
  • Street vendors in the French capital were doing a roaring trade in bottled water, selling 25 centilitre bottles for €2 each to hordes of thirsty tourists in front of the Sacre Coeur basilica.
  • Even with the roaring falls, you could still hear the sweet melody of the birds and the rustling leaves by the wind.
  • When the wind came roaring across, he could hear in broken waves of sound the riotous blare of the instruments.
  • Considering this, it is not surprising that the dance's origins can be traced back to the roaring twenties - the time of the flappers and the first Miss America contest.
  • I could not get near to it for the water which seemed deep and roaring but my desire was always intense to come nearer.
  • For three days the heavens descended in a downpour that made the river a roaring torrent and isled the two log houses on their hillocks. The Emigrant Trail
  • The cannon was roaring in the distance.
  • The postwar building boom was under way, the bulldozers were roaring, and Wayburn knew that developers were coveting those areas for subdivisions.
  • I remember many years ago, sitting with my mother and brother, in front of a roaring coal fire, gawping at a black and white tube, mesmerised by the likes of Cagney, Bogart, & Hepburn.
  • There is very little banter back and forth between comic and crowd; indeed, Gottfried is just there to deliver his compendium of crudity and accept the accolades of his adoring - and roaring - fans.
  • Thankfully for Sony, its next venture was a rip-roaring success, but it did require teaming up with arch rival Philips to make it happen. David Julian Price: When Two Tribes Go To War
  • When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  • The "Barr" champagne glass with a stylized head on the stem comes with a matching stirrer 1924—swizzling out the fizz was a jazzy fad in the roaring 1920s. A Display of Lalique's Beauty
  • I have been woken by them hovering over the housetops, roaring continuously and beaming a bright searchlight.
  • The furnaces along the far wall were roaring, opened doors throwing skittering shadows across the huge foundry floor.
  • But they loved the books nonetheless, mostly because they are rip-roaring reads. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hearts thumping, we slipped beneath the surface, anticipating a gnarly passage through silty twists and turns, with the blood roaring in our ears and pulses hammering.
  • Even if the road is bumpy, the wheel must go forward; even if the river roaring waves, ships are sailing.
  • I want to ask your outstanding panel, with the stock market way up and the economy roaring, why in the world would not it be political suicide to repeal the tax cut?
  • Now crept the worm down to his place of watering, and the earth shook all about him, and he snorted forth venom on all the way before him as he went; but Sigurd neither trembled nor was adrad at the roaring of him. The Story of the Volsungs
  • The roaring sea gradually calmed down.
  • The kidling, when she sees pictures of lions, roars. (it's v. cute) When she saw real lions roaring she giggled. MetaChat
  • Over the sound of howling wind an animal cry could be heard, followed by ferocious roaring.
  • The winter months have set in and all I want to do is kick back in front of the roaring fire whilst sporting my brand new onesie.
  • Smyrna fund; then, saluted by the gesticulative, silent applause of St. - Ange and the schooner-men, he resumed his first attitude behind his roaring master. Short Stories for English Courses
  • Roaring fires, a crèche, spa and pool. Times, Sunday Times
  • The format quickly posed an annoyance - did I really need to endure the MGM lion roaring at the start of every single featurette?
  • These people are, of course, the wild things crowding the shore, roaring and gnashing their teeth, rolling their eyes and showing their claws.
  • He's betting that the Chinese economy will keep roaring along at its present torrid pace, at a time when many analysts believe China is set to slow, or maybe even overheat.
  • Oakland had the ball deep in its territory and the home faithful were roaring in the Colts' noisy dome.
  • As a wag has put it, to believe an explosion created an ordered universe is like believing a hurricane roaring through a junkyard can create a fifth-generation computer.
  • That he can write lines surpassing -- aye! "she cried," _surpassing_ Polonius's advice to his son, and leave them uncopied on an ale-house table to go off with the first loose woman who comes by, and be carried home, too drunk to walk, the next morning, roaring out hymns about eternal salvation. Nancy Stair A Novel
  • In the past I had donned an unflattering blue raincoat - a refuse-sack with armholes - and taken the famous ‘Maid of the Mist’ boat journey right up to the Falls, to experience first-hand the sheer force and power of the roaring cascade.
  • From a Protestant fundamentalist point of view the church has become a roaring success.
  • The roaring and crashing sounds she had heard the night before had not stopped either.
  • We passed a dune-buggy station: coffee, snacks and quad-bikes with fat tyres for riders seeking the adrenalin-jolts of roaring up and down the rose-coloured hillocks of sand.
  • Fishermen of Cape Clear, Long Island and Roaringwater Bay, used the mackerel drifters and the Heir Island fishermen worked their pots over hundreds of miles along the Cork coast in lobster boats.
  • In his film pieces, he often made use of commercial production techniques or isolated bits of Hollywood films, as when he created a continuous loop of the roaring MGM lion.
  • I've got a rip-roaring book to read, some projects to work on and lots of warm clothes to snuggle up in.
  • A good stomp from the two-clown-long-horn followed by an "Oooohooowee my aching bunions!" used to raise roaring cachinnation. Archive 2006-04-02
  • The place was a blazing, raging , roaring, etc inferno.
  • The train powered on under the bridge, its wheels screeching and roaring, and for one brief moment its lights cleansed the bridge of its clinging shadow. CROSSING THE BRIDGE • by M.Sherlock
  • The stallholders were doing a roaring trade in burgers.
  • I won't go into a blow-by-blow description of every activity and argument they had but overall the overnight stay was a roaring success and I am more willing to venture into the overnight stay for JJ's friends again.
  • On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl.
  • Toy shops do a roaring trade just before Christmas.
  • A sudden roaring clatter from the heronry. Times, Sunday Times

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