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Example sentences for "loud report"

  • When they are stuck into a candle, the heat converts the water or alcohol into vapour, which breaks the glass with a loud report, extinguishing the flame at the same time.

  • Three or four grains of this powder, heated on a knife, will explode with a loud report.

  • They come slowly forward "There is a flash--a loud report.

  • Illustration: There is a flash--a loud report.

  • The car skewed off at a tangent, hurdled the moat, and tore a hole in the mud wall; and, as the occupants spilled sprawlingly through the gap, a front tire exploded with a loud report.

  • George, as a large hot tear stole down his pale cheek, and fell with a loud report on the warty surface of his bare foot, "he was lost at sea in a bitter gale.

  • Thank you," said Mr. Gould, as the thermometer in the next room suddenly froze up and burst with a loud report.

  • To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

  • A loud report of a pistol aroused me from my stupor; I looked back.

  • As I gazed, a second and more awful squall struck the boat; the mast went over, and with a loud report like a pistol-shot smashed at the thwart and fell over, trailing the sail along the milky sea behind us.

  • There was a loud report; a ball whizzed past, and we heard a cry of "In the king's name!

  • A minute or two later, we heard a loud report, and Jacques and I gazed at each other in amazement.

  • He turned the corner in front of us, and was hidden for an instant from our view, when we heard a loud report.

  • Occasionally what appeared a solid body of living fire shot skyward, accompanied by a loud report, as a powder-tumbrel was struck by one of the flying missiles.

  • Then came a blinding flash, a loud report, a greyish cloud of smoke, and, from behind me, fierce shouts and cries of pain.

  • Instantly we halted; the front rank men kneeled down; the rifles were levelled; there was a line of light, a loud report, and once more the hussars were thrown back.

  • There was a loud report, a tongue of flame and smoke spurted almost into his face, and his coon-skin cap was lifted from his head and carried into the bush behind.

  • There was a loud report, a bullet whisked over his head, and smoke gushed from the forest.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loud report" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adjourned meeting; agitated voice; artillery were; difficult for; directions given; little groups; loud cheer; loud explosion; loud laugh; loud report; loud roar; loud shout; loud shriek; loud talking; loud tone; marry thee; mental vision; opposite page; other hands; said hurriedly; that little; upper surface; viva voce; who commanded; whom she; will ever