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blare
[ blair ]
verb (used without object)
- to emit a loud, raucous sound:
The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.
verb (used with object)
- to sound loudly; proclaim noisily:
We sat there horrified as the radio blared the awful news.
noun
- a loud, raucous noise:
The blare of the band made conversation impossible.
- glaring intensity of light or color:
A blare of sunlight flooded the room as she opened the shutters.
- fanfare; flourish; ostentation; flamboyance:
a new breakfast cereal proclaimed with all the blare of a Hollywood spectacle.
- Eastern New England. the bawl of a calf.
blare
/ blɛə /
verb
- to sound loudly and harshly
- to proclaim loudly and sensationally
noun
- a loud and usually harsh or grating noise
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Example Sentences
A siren’s blare woke me, so loud it sounded like it was inside the room.
I crept to the door: the organ broke out overhead with a blare.
Yon deep bell tolls no matin—'tis the tocsin's hurried blare!
Suddenly we heard the blare of trumpets; the slow walk burst into a gallop, and then—well, it was wonderful to see!
Deep red—that was the colour of the Romantic school; the flourishing of trumpets and the blare of brass its note.
A night of Nature's making when she is tired of noise and blare of color.
The blare of the thousand trumpets, the acclamations of a vast multitude proclaimed the thing done!
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