LOUD in a Sentence

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For LOUD, below is one of 263 sentences:
A loud guffaw that came from the closed room indicated that the members of the committee had not yet settled down to serious business.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOUD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
loud
 a.  making a lot of noise that you can hear clearly
 ad.  with a great deal of volume
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His long white hair standing out behind him, he urged the horse forward with crop and loud cries.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Mammy muttered darkly to herself as she waddled, taking care that her remarks were pitched too low to be understood but loud enough to register her unqualified disapproval.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  "But not as loud as you yell when Mammy washes your ears," returned Mrs. Tarleton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Mr. McRae was a reminder of a cruder era, like Grandma Fontaine and her embarrassingly loud belches, an era everyone would like to forget.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  I'll scream out loud if you come near me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  There was a loud burst of applause as he bowed and a craning of necks from the ladies in the corner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Her ears strained for sounds from upstairs, but the house was oddly still, so still that even the sound of her breathing seemed loud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Surely there wasn't a negro on earth as tall and loud voiced as this one except Big Sam, the foreman of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Occasionally it was loud enough to be heard even above the rattle of traffic at noon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  That subject was taboo, but strained nerves found expression in loud criticism of the General.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  She would have preferred a loud scream to silent endurance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  She heard her own breath pass from loud evenness to spasmodic sobbing but her eyes were dry and burning as though there would never be tears in them again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  Through the blur, she saw the men moving toward the doorway, heard the sergeant calling commands in a loud rough voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  The gate gave a loud creak as he pushed it open.
17  She turned the radio up loud.
18  There were loud groans when he started to sing.
19  There was a loud bang, like the sound of an engine misfiring.
20  Ten thousand people roar a loud sigh as you are.
21  The noise was so loud that it was a nuisance to the neighbors.
22  Your loud talking would interfere with the other patrons' conversations.
23  The best way to spread Christmas cheer is to sing loud for everyone to hear!
24  When I again unclosed my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; day had not yet begun to dawn, and a rush light or two burned in the room.
25  "Stupid things!" Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily.
26  The sound of TV is so loud that we have to talk in next room.
27  "A cheap sort of present!" thought Alice. "I'm glad they don't give birthday presents like that!" But she did not venture to say it out loud.
28  The music was so loud we had to bellow at each other to be heard.
29  Distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.
30  A loud guffaw that came from the closed room indicated that the members of the committee had not yet settled down to serious business.