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• It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.From the entry scorching
• The car engine coughed temperamentally before roaring into life.From the entry temperamentally
• The cook's assistant, who was called the cookee, made a roaring fire in the stove.2015, John Zimm, John Nelligan: Wisconsin Lumberjack. From the entry cookee
• Often, they would throw the animal’s bones onto a roaring bonfire.2012 October 28, David DiSalvo, “Are You or Someone You Know Samhainophobic?”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2014. From the entry Samhain
• Imagine a party in full swing, with everyone roaring drunk and falling over.2012, Laetitia Maklouf, “July”, in Sweet Peas for Summer: How to Create a Garden in a Year, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry Havisham-esque
• Protesters burned a train station below, hurling tyres on to an already roaring blaze across the tracks.2010 May 19, Ben Doherty, “Thai soldiers arrest protest leaders in bloody 'final crackdown'”, in The Guardian. From the entry bunker
• Those flat-trajectory shells would skim straight in, making a roaring sound in the dark: Foom!2000, James Bradley, Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima. From the entry foom
• It includes the latitudes sailors long-ago nicknamed the roaring forties, the furious fifties, and the screaming sixties.1998, Derek Lundy, chapter 1, in Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, page 5. From the entry roaring forties
• The night was full of roaring, like the ten-thousandfold throat of the stadium.1988 April, Tanith Lee, “The Fire Ride”, in The White Serpent (A Novel of Vis, 3; DAW Book Collectors No. 740), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books…. From the entry ten-thousandfold
• He actually was inside the asbestosed box buried under a roaring fire.1986, John Booth, Wonders of Magic: A Veteran Magician’s Book of Original Tricks, Concepts, Pictures, Memoirs, and Conjuring History…. From the entry asbestos
• The glacial drip was already in evidence, and every creek in roaring spate.1902 October, Jack London, chapter XXIII, in A Daughter of the Snows, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC…. From the entry spate
• The gorilla's visual (chest pounding) and auditory (roaring) gestures are simultaneously posturing and actions, creating the aura that is distinctively gorillian.2012, Don Ihde, Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound, Second Edition. From the entry gorillian
• The Hoovers charged, engines roaring and bags fully inflated.2011, Terry Jones, Evil Machines, Clerkenwell, London: Unbound, →ISBN. From the entry hoover
• The sight gag had the psychiatrists roaring.2008 October, Paul Scott, “Was the Prozac revolution all in our heads?”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 146. From the entry sight gag
• A jerk on the straps and the next thing I knew I was full-stopped with the engine roaring at military.2007 August 7, Jeff Crowell, “There I Was: Conehead Catches A Wire [LONG]”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet), archived from the original…. From the entry full-stopped
• But when the roaring died, there was only the silence: the awful, abashing stillness of the prison night.2006, Sarah Waters, chapter 3, in The Night Watch, London: Virago, published 1944, page 287. From the entry abashing
• David was roaring as Efron talked about supercolossal and supersupreme.1976, Harold Lawrence Myra, Elsbeth, Revell, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry supersupreme
• Challenger breathed two or three times with enormous gulps, his lungs roaring as he drew in the vital gas.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry vital
• May you die roaring like Doran's bull!1910, Patrick Weston Joyce, “Comparisons”, in English as we speak it in Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, page 137. From the entry die roaring
• Mind you, he was always kicking and roaring about his liver or stummick, or some of his works.1901, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders. From the entry stummick
• Liverpool had barely missed a beat since the 1-1 draw with Arsenal at Anfield on 23 December, roaring forward on all four fronts.2024 February 4, David Hytner, “Arsenal ignite title hopes as Gabriel Martinelli punishes Liverpool error”, in The Guardian. From the entry miss a beat
• As for Hammersmith itself, that's now a transport hub, but unfortunately cars were invited to the party, so the centre is a roaring roundabout.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry hammersmith
• They were roaring down Xunjianggang, a strait about three kilometers wide that ran between Xiamen Island and the northeastern district of Xiang’an.2011, Neal Stephenson, Reamde, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 465. From the entry Xiang'an
• This period is known as Yuletide—the locals' version of the Christmas period, when most places offer traditional Christmas dinners and roaring log fires.2010, Lee Atkinson, Ron Crittall, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, “New South Wales”, in Emil J. Ross, editor, Frommer’s Australia 2010…. From the entry yuletide
• The genial, white-haired Malachy also enthralled the audience with grim jokes about how Henry VIII and Randolph Churchill died roaring from syphillis.1997 September 13, “The court of Malachy”, in The Irish Times. From the entry die roaring
• One morning, maybe three weeks after my last grapple with Penny, Thomson came roaring into our form room. ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry form room
• “I know not, though some have said the earth shudders when firemountains roar, yet whether the shudder causes the roaring or the roaring causes the shudder, I cannot say."1999, Dennis L. McKiernan, Into the Fire, page 151. From the entry firemountain
• Suffice it to say that the barman physically hustled him towards the door, as Gus struggled and shouted, "I hope you die roaring for a priest."1996, Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Poolbeg, →ISBN, page 654. From the entry die roaring for a priest
• Miss Mattie started a roaring fire, and everyone hung up the wet clothes while the cat played, tea water boiled, and the king planned how to unrust his knights.1995, Lee Ebler, “The Fist Wet Clothes Drying Party”, in Editors of Highlights for Children, editor, Frog For a Day and Other Fanciful…. From the entry unrust
• Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals.1986, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Baton Rouge, La.; London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry whitefish
• Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity would probably be considered anti-social in wayside waiting rooms.1946 March and April, “State Railway Dreams”, in Railway Magazine, page 67. From the entry carpet
• Tipsters are the camp-followers of every speculative orgy, living by their wits on scraps from roaring stock markets, making their get-away before the suckers can hit back.1933, Newsweek - Volume 1, page 23. From the entry camp follower
• Sent out on an assignment to write up a roaring, hilarious, brilliant joshing story of—but I will not knock a brother—let us go on with the story.1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Thing’s the Play”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New…. From the entry knock
• It was the most mysto sensation, kissing each other that way without even wanting to come up for air, and that crazy hot storm roaring through all the trees outside.1964, Kay Martin, The Disconnected, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 317. From the entry mysto
• In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 189. From the entry brew
• King-of-the-Sky was sitting alone in the Leeward Village meeting-house, gesticulating to the attentive shades of night, roaring out the genealogy of his ancestors, telling the sleeping world of his greatness.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, republished by Eland, 2019; p. 94. From the entry attentive

Meaning of roaring

1. adjective Intensive; extreme.
2. adjective Very successful; lively.
3. noun A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.

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Questions about roaring in a sentence

How do you use roaring in a sentence?

Roaring is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.”

What is a short sentence with roaring?

“May you die roaring like Doran's bull!”

What does roaring mean?

Roaring means intensive; extreme.