ALOUD in a Sentence

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For ALOUD, below is one of 183 sentences:
There was nothing to do but knit all day and at night listen to Uncle Carey read aloud from the improving works of Mr. Bulwer-Lytton.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALOUD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aloud
 ad.  with relatively high volume
 ad.  using the voice; not silently
Classic Sentence: (179 in 12 pages)
1  She almost gasped aloud in the shock of its unexpectedness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Widows could never chatter vivaciously or laugh aloud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  There was nothing to do but knit all day and at night listen to Uncle Carey read aloud from the improving works of Mr. Bulwer-Lytton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Melanie was always generous with the letters, reading parts of them aloud to Aunt Pitty and Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  The Meades and McLures proudly read these letters all over the neighborhood, and Scarlett had frequently felt a secret shame that Melanie had no such letters from Ashley to read aloud at sewing circles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  I can't help it, she thought, and then, aloud: "Well, hurry and get the whisky, quickly."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  I'll think of it later, she said aloud, turning her eyes away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Strength was coming back and a reckless excitement which made her want to laugh aloud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  "I wish I had money enough to buy that mill myself," she said aloud and sighed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  "Yet they set you free," she said aloud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  She was not altogether certain how she felt about this revelation but as an idea came to her she suddenly laughed aloud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
13  Her green eyes were alert and sparkling again, and she laughed aloud for the first time in weeks when Rhett and Bonnie met her and Wade and Ella at the depot--laughed in annoyance and amusement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
14  "Oh," she cried aloud, in fright, and in her mind she clutched him close to her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
15  "I won't think of it now," she said again, aloud, trying to push her misery to the back of her mind, trying to find some bulwark against the rising tide of pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
Example Sentence:
1  "Come, we shall have some fun now!" thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. -- I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.
2  "I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!" said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular. "She'd soon fetch it back!"
3  The teacher asked the students to read the text aloud after class.
4  I heard him suddenly laugh aloud.