How to Use roaring in a Sentence

roaring

noun
  • The nearby ice-cream kiosk does a roaring trade when the sun shines.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Fountain Square is all decked out to get the city roaring.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2022
  • As the nights start to draw in, the idea of sitting down by a roaring fire can be hard to resist.
    Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • So read on for the pop culture that will define your first year of the roaring ‘20s!
    Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Faux fur blankets and a roaring fire make the room warm and inviting.
    Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Most workers wore earplugs to drown out the hoses and roaring machines.
    Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Its muscles taut, the Acura leapt from turn to turn, the 355-horse turbo-6 — unique to this car in the TLX lineup — roaring.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The fire had begun on the third floor, in apartment 3N, where a space heater had sparked a roaring blaze around a child’s bed.
    New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • After the indices ended up in the red the last two weeks, the final week in May is off to a roaring start.
    Q.ai - Investing Reimagined, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • For a fun update on the roaring '20s theme, steal inspo from The Great Gatbsy.
    Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Then the Bradley roared off, clanking and roaring, down some unknown road.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • But #BucksIn6 fans will still note that two of those series did, in fact, end with the team down 2-0 roaring back for four straight to win in six.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2021
  • The Fed has served up an even stronger tonic in recent years that's kept the party roaring.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The cutout patterns of moons and stars in the ring make a stunning effect at night during a roaring fire.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022
  • As the buildings in the town caught fire, the theater filled with the roaring, crackling sounds of an inferno.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • There are remnants of Catholicism and the roaring ’20s in the collection.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The crowd might have continued its taunt, but good luck hearing that over the sound of Zach Edey roaring.
    Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And then the bear roaring for the title — those are touch points of visual excitement.
    Vulture, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The other project will rebuild the raw sugar storage shed that burned to the ground in a roaring, three-alarm fire last year.
    Mckenna Oxenden, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2022
  • Others, beat unconscious, woke to the wide roaring sea, ready to serve.
    Megan Fernandes, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
  • On third and goal with the crowd roaring, Jacardia Wright was stalled at right guard but bounced wide and ran in for a 1-yard touchdown to give the Bears the lead.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Campbell recalled the roaring flames and the blasting noise of the incoming fire trucks.
    Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Nothing in the backcountry gives off heat like a roaring fire.
    Popular Science, 28 May 2020
  • The holidays are a great time to relax with the perfect book and some hot cocoa by a roaring fire.
    John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The trucks’ roaring also will be curtailed to those nearby, because the indoors will shield the sound.
    Nick Sortal, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The boys players only got in four holes because of lightning, but the Lions were off to a roaring start.
    Brent Kennedy, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Catcher Tyler Stephenson, not allowed to block the plate, caught India’s throw and beat Difo’s hand to the back of the plate for a crowd-roaring out.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Each room has a cozy roaring fireplace to warm yourself by in winter.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Only 18 hours out of the Cocos Islands, a roaring storm caused Dove’s mast to buckle.
    Karen Carmichael, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • With the crowd roaring and the Suns reeling, Paul ended everything.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021

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