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US
/ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/
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[ UK /ʃˈaʊtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈaʊtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement
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encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators
it's all over but the shouting
How To Use shouting In A Sentence
- There was a deal of shouting from Jamie's direction, and general hubbub, as a few people came out of the pothouse, staring. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street. Hodge and His Masters
- I mustered the entire caravan outside the tembe, our flags and streamers were unfurled, the men had their loads resting on the walls, there was considerable shouting, and laughing, and negroidal fanfaronnade. How I Found Livingstone
- Less shouting makes for a more attentive audience. Times, Sunday Times
- Modern soldiers are far less responsive to shouting than their predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
- His team pulled the sled deep into the night, Jason shouting orders left and right while he stood on the runners at the back of the sled.
- In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
- Just calm down - shouting won't solve anything!
- People across the country might reckon we all go about with cloth caps and whippets but Yorkshire is a very beautiful county and perhaps we should be shouting about how wonderful the natural landscape is.
- Pieces-of-Eight and shouting out "yarr, matey!" may have gone the way of the Dodo, but piracy is still a real threat on the world's seas. Archive 2008-03-01