out loud

Idioms and Phrases

Audibly, aloud, as in I sometimes find myself reading the paper out loud , or That movie was hilarious; the whole audience was laughing out loud . First recorded in 1821, this synonym for aloud was once criticized as too colloquial for formal writing, but this view is no longer widespread. Moreover, aloud is rarely used with verbs like laugh and cry . Also see for crying out loud .

Example Sentences

This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

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I am lucky on Secret Six to have an editor, Mark Doyle, who agrees, we want people to gasp out loud.

From The Daily Beast

Egeland is something of an outlier among the worldwide community of humanitarians because he says this sort of thing out loud.

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I still read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock every month or so out loud.

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And in the film, too, some of the most memorable scenes were the ones that were epically laugh-out-loud funny.

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But laughing out loud was almost as bad, so Henry took his little brother on the hay beside him and talked to him seriously.

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Then a branch cracked sharply outside, and Watch barked out loud.

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And Lamb said a four-letter word after he had hung up and laughed out loud in the phone booth.

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The duke went down into his carpet-bag, and fetched up a lot of little printed bills and read them out loud.

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Then Mary Jane she fetched the letter her father left behind, and the king he read it out loud and cried over it.

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