aroar
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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We went in a bunch, out of the dressing room and down a dim passage aroar with the distant sound.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
And lo, here was love tearing him by the throat till he choked; an exquisite torture, a rampant passion, a devastating flame, that most glorified when it burned most deeply, aroar and ablaze forevermore.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
Nor was all this preparation vain, for scarcely five minutes had passed since Captain Ransome's guns had broken the truce of doubt before the whole region was aroar: the enemy had attacked nearly everywhere.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
The great room, ordinarily aroar with life, was still and gloomy as a tomb.
From The Faith of Men by Jack London
What a rare wit to set the ring aroar — As Shakespeare says!
From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
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