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How to use loud in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, adverb

Loud means of great intensity. Example: “Turn that music down; it's too loud.”

Examples of loud by meaning

adjectiveOf great intensity.

  • Turn that music down; it's too loud.
  • What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.

adjectiveNoisy.

  • a loud party that went on all night

adjectiveNot subtle or reserved, brash.

  • Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them.1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “Property-tax assessments rise; north siders are revolting”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original...
  • Many people, or at least a handful of very loud people, hate to being dubbed Millennial.2015 August 24, Samantha Sharf, “What is a ‘Millennial’ Anyway? Meet the Man who Coined the Phrase”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes...

adjectiveHaving unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.

  • a loud style of dress; loud colors
  • In comparison with the loud Portrait of E.C.2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 22

adjectiveOf great intensity.

  • Ohls showed the motorcycle officer his badge and we went out on the pier, into a loud fish smell which one night's hard rain hadn't even dented.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, →ISBN, page 45

adverbLoudly.

  • Money still talks — indeed, thanks in part to the Roberts court, it talks louder than ever.2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2020

More sentences with loud

  • There was a slight catch in her voice as she read the letter out loud.From the entry voice
  • Just a little louder please—turn that knob a hair to the right.From the entry hair
  • When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.From the entry bang
  • There was a loud hiccup from the back of the room and the class erupted in laughter.From the entry hiccup
  • There were several loud hiccups from the back of the room, and the class erupted in laughter.From the entry hiccups
  • The loud bang in the hallway seemed to alarm everyone in the building.From the entry alarm
  • The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.From the entry tag
  • Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.From the entry impinge
  • He put an end to the loud music by pulling the plug.From the entry pull the plug
  • My neighbours and I are not very compatible: they're loud and I'm an introvert.From the entry compatible
  • I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laaaaming.From the entry flaming
  • Oh, for crying out loud, get off the computer! You've been on there for ages!From the entry for crying out loud
  • The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado.From the entry bravado
  • She is a loud, saucy child who doesn't show a lot of respect to her elders.From the entry saucy
  • The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.From the entry amusing
  • Could you back off the volume a bit? It’s really loud.From the entry back off
  • The loud, nasally voice from behind the door attracted my attention.From the entry nasally
  • Her sister always got the nicest things because she screamed loudest.From the entry scream loudest
  • The loud knock at the door gave me a terrible jump scare.From the entry jump scare
  • I let out a loud gurk and everybody looked at me.From the entry gurk
  • I got overwhelmed by the loud music and had to go into another room to destim.From the entry destim
  • The noise was so loud that she woke up.From the entry that
  • He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade.From the entry blade
  • The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.From the entry stop
  • His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.From the entry compensate
  • Loud music assaulted our ears as we entered the building.From the entry assault
  • She let out a loud, doleful wail.From the entry wail
  • That jumpscare is so loud! RIP headphone users.From the entry rip
  • Can you speak a notch louder, please?From the entry notch
  • The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic".From the entry stopper
  • While the flashy special effects were nice, the movie was aurally jarring, loud and displeasing in general to the ear.From the entry aurally

Meaning of loud

  1. adjective Of great intensity.
  2. adjective Noisy.
  3. adjective Not subtle or reserved, brash.

Full definition of loud

Questions about loud in a sentence

How do you use loud in a sentence?
Loud is used as an adjective, noun and adverb. For example: “Turn that music down; it's too loud.”
What is a short sentence with loud?
“Can you speak a notch louder, please?”
What does loud mean?
Loud means of great intensity.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: loud (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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