It will just take time for those little murmurs to become a roar.
I was sleeping late after a long weekend of work, when my girlfriend heard the roar of its engines approaching.
I thought about Al, pushed onto the hood of the car at the airport, the roar of planes taking off and landing in the background.
But no matter, we are allergic and getting more allergic, hear us roar (and sniffle and whine and hack).
At least when an all-too-real attack came on Wednesday morning, there was only the flashing of blades, not the roar of gunfire.
This was responded to by a roar of satisfaction from the crowd below.
The sound in her ear had grown to a roar, as of many mill-wheels.
Not from the street, for all beside was still; even the roar of London was hushed!
Rain fell in torrents; the crashing thunder was like the roar of artillery.
The Book is full of the tingle and even the roar of the life out of which it was born.
Old English rarian "roar, wail, lament, bellow, cry," probably of imitative origin (cf. Middle Dutch reeren, German röhren "to roar;" Sanskrit ragati "barks;" Lithuanian reju "to scold;" Old Church Slavonic revo "I roar;" Latin raucus "hoarse"). Related: Roared; roaring.
late 14c., from roar (v.) and Old English gerar.
