bellow

verb

bel·low ˈbe-(ˌ)lō

bellowed; bellowing; bellows

Synonyms of bellow next

intransitive verb

: to make the loud deep hollow sound characteristic of a bull

: to shout in a deep voice

transitive verb

: bawl

bellows the orders

bellow noun

Examples of bellow in a Sentence

He bellowed at her to come over at once. He was bellowing into the phone, giving orders to one of his employees. The sergeant was bellowing orders.

Recent Examples on the Web The problem was that, with its pandering and bellowing, the Yiddish version was no longer enough. —

Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023 The Ohio congressman, who had been expected to meet with holdouts opposing his candidacy, was missing for hours before aides noticed a desperate bellowing sound from inside his office’s water closet. —

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023 But that's only possible with the correct ocean conditions, when other sounds aren’t around to drown out blue whale bellows. —

Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023 On May 3, 1946, a warm spring morning in Tokyo, the marshal bellowed for the audience to rise, and 11 judges filed into the courtroom for the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. —

Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023 Huge flocks of migratory birds, the murmurations of local species, rutting deer bellowing on the hills and in the woodland, and—more earthbound and much smaller—the amazing variety of life that toils to return organic matter to the soil are just some of the wonders of the season. —

Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 10 Sep. 2023 Residents of Athens — as well as tourists combing the Acropolis — watched nervously last week, as smoke from orange flames bellowed from the hills outside the capital. —

Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023 The model can already accurately sort beluga whale calls, and Earth Species plans to apply it to species as disparate as orangutans (who bellow), elephants (who send seismic rumbles through the ground), and jumping spiders (who vibrate their legs). —

Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023 The engine pulls cleanly right off idle, and a proper exhaust bark bellows right below your left ear. —

Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2023 See More

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