A few seconds later a roar like thunder burst upon our ears, and as the smoke thinned away there was no sign left of the Gloria Scott.
The party filed with a dull roar into one of the front rooms, the office of a harum-scarum young lawyer who had more empty bottles behind his door than he had ever had briefs on his desk.
They would expect soon to hear the roar of the lion, even if they did not feel his paw.
With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below-- As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Hushed the wounded man his groaning; Hushed the wife her little ones; Alone they heard the drum-roll And the roar of Sepoy guns.
And still they rowed amidst theroar Of waters fast prevailing: Lord Ullin reached that fatal shore, His wrath was changed to wailing.
And now the cannons roar Along the affrighted shore; Brave Nelson led the way: His ship the Victory named; Long be that victory famed!
Such a ring--it pealed all over the house above the roar of the storm.
In the filthy trenches of the Somme front, with the roar of the guns and the groans of stricken men for the music of Ned Burr's violin, and the flash of star shells for the silver sparkles on the old blue gulf.
A roar went up; glasses rang again and Dave fluttered about in protest at the noise.
As Gay opened the door, Fancy heard a roar that increased steadily until it became a wild hullabaloo.
His laughter was like theroar of a convivial lion.
The pipes gae a roar o' agony like a stuck swine, and fell gasping on the floor.
Perhaps he had been speaking throughout the roar of the rain.
From my door I could hear theroar of curling stones at Rashie-bog, which is almost four miles nearer Thrums.
Gavin's ear; yet the roar of the water was so tremendous that the words came faintly, as if from a distance.
At this part the breadth of the flood was not forty yards, yet for a time our voices could no more cross its roar than one may send a snowball through a stone wall.
A murmur arose on the skirts of the mob, and swept with the roar of the sea towards the town-house.
Giving a sharp, comprehensive glance round, he turned upon his heels and walked away towards the entrance, feeling ready to go back indignantly, for there was a roar of laughter apparently at his expense.
There was a roar of laughter from all present, and Richard was conscious of a sharp face belonging to a bandsman peering between the palm-leaves.
There was no more said on the way back to the barracks, much to Dick's satisfaction, for he felt that if the lieutenant spoke he would be compelled to burst out with a roar of laughter in his face.
Richard hardly heard what was said, for there was a sound as of surging waters in his ears, followed by a roar of words that seemed to thunder.
Not quite; for he thought of the absent bath, and then shuddered and listened for the roar of the river, now softened down into a murmur.
The old man wouldn't raise a roar if I snitched on you for that thirty thousand.
A roar of laughter was her reward, and the poet blushed and receded into his sensitive shell.
She beat me to it, was his next thought, and what had been incomprehensible the moment before was as sharply definite as the roar of her rifle.
I swear I either slept or was unconscious most of those two hours; and I swear she was in one state or the other when I chanced to come to and noted the absence of the roar of the surf.
All at once there was a roar as of a desert lion bursting from its lair.
He had never thought of using it himself, until that moment when he saw his enemies advancing upon him with wild cries, and heard the roar of the flaming church.
Then all was still, except the roar of the burning church and the solemn soughing of the pines, as the rising west wind rustled their branches.
Casting a hurried glance backward, she saw the grayish-white storm-sheet come rushing over the sloping expanse of surging pines, and heard its dull heavyroar over the rattle of the aerial artillery which echoed and re-echoed above her.
She held the child toward its godfather and owner as she spoke, amid a roar of laughter from her fellow-servants.
Then the earth quivered and a muffled, booming roar came from the distance.
As we gazed on this sudden wreck, I am ashamed to say there was a roar of laughter, for never was a surprise of so bewildering a character sprung upon human nature.
The organ is a machine--and not the roarof a lion in a midnight forest is more sublime, or a fitter reply from earth to the thunder.
The fool always thinks himself wiser than the wise dead; the 'living dog' fancies that his yelp is louder than the roar of 'the dead lion.
So, a roar of many voices calls for Samson, and this deepest degradation is not spared him.
That roar from a thousand voices meant a good deal more than the cowed king's vain threats did.
But the distant roar of acclaim reached Adonijah and his gang as they sat at their too hasty banquet.
He is as complete a contrast to his stern, solitary, forceful predecessor, as the 'still small voice' was to the roar of the wind or the crackling hiss of the flames.
By gad, ye have to fight for the Queen in the inside av a fortnight, my darlin'" A roar of laughter interrupted.
There was a far-off clapping of hands from the Goorkhas, and a roar from the Highlanders in the distance, but never a shot was fired by British or Afghan.
Nor does his happiness increase when he watches the whites of the eyes of three hundred six-foot fiends upon whose beards the foam is lying, upon whose tongues is a roar of wrath, and in whose hands are yard-long knives.
He started forward to the gun, which, very naturally, was loaded, pulled the lanyard, and woke the dead night with the roarof the full charge behind a common shell.
But he could not see what she described, and the roar of the wind drowned her voice, so he shouted, "Point, Judith!
But had he called in tones of thunder he would not have been heard in the roar of the wind and crash of the surf.
A blinding bolt of lightning fell, and at the appallingroar of thunder all hid their faces.
Then the god stamped on the sands and all the springs were opened in the mountains, so that the Saco came rising through the valley with a roar that made the nations tremble.
A blinding flash, a roar of thunder, and there stepped into the cave two men of giant size and gravely beautiful faces, hardened at the cheeks and brows to stone.
Cries and death-songs mingled with the deepeningroar of the waters, the light barks reached the cataract and leaped into the air.
Whenever his rope broke he would roar with rage and anguish, so that he was heard for miles, whereon the children would run to their trembling mothers and men would look troubled and shake their heads.
At nightfall there was the close, triumphant roar of a big reaction turbine and a light stabbed through the fog, flooding the boat with blue-white radiance.
The last was drowned out by a dull roar as gasoline fumes exploded.
He picked up the gun to a confused roar like a slowed-down sound track and emptied it into the corridor.
V Max Wyman shoved his way through such a roar of voices and such a crush of bodies as he had never known before.
Orsino jumped wildly as the jaygee's machine gun began to roar a long burst of twenty, but he didn't fire himself.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
The unrest and torment of his own heart he finds reflected in Nature: The roar of waters!
It has been said that one can hear the sighing of the north wind and the roar of the North Sea in Gudrun, but this is scarcely more than a pretty phrase.
She consented and they went along Oxford Street without speaking, the roar of the carriages and waggons preventing a word.
Oh, for the roar of - "The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Suddenly they heard a strange sound; it was the distantroar of a lion.
But the roar and the execution of the cannon dismayed them, and many of them fled at once.
In fact, a huge cake as big as a house did fall off, and crashed down with a great roar to the rocks below, even as they watched.
As it rushed past, the noise was so great that no one heard a lesser roar behind him.
A voice, half drowned in the roar of the gale, came across from the other tent.
Even after the scouts left, they could hear the TUM-tum of the drums, till the roar of the falls drowned it.
The roar of the logs in the stove, the light of the lamp, and presently the smell of food and coffee, acted like magic.
Slowly the wave gathered itself together and, as the water shallowed above the edge of the reef, curled over and broke with a roar that rattled the glasses on the arms of our chairs.
For a few moments, rising above the dull roar of the surf against the base of the cliff, we heard the thud and splash of the bodies striking rocks and water, and then, save for the bleating of the wounded at our feet, all was quiet.
The water rushed in with the roar of a miniature Niagara, but beyond washing the Japanese cook off the transom on which he had composed himself for sleep and bouncing him against the stove, no serious harm was done.
At the same moment that a deep-chested roar of "Hare, you dam'd Kanaka!
Is it because they are telling themselves that it is only the roar of the traffic on the Parisian pavements?
And still the yacht continued to drift, with the land looming higher and the threatening roar of the surf on the reef growing louder every minute.
The wind and surf and thunder blend in a raucous roar as the storm grows more furious, and now the trees are snapping and falling before the terrific onslaught.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
