blare

verb

\ ˈbler

blared; blaring

Definition of blare

(Entry 1 of 2)

intransitive verb

: to sound loud and strident radios blaring

transitive verb

1 : to sound or utter raucously sat blaring the car horn

2 : to proclaim flamboyantly headlines blared his defeat

blare

noun

Definition of blare (Entry 2 of 2)

1 : a loud strident noise

2 : dazzling often garish brilliance

3 : flamboyance

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Examples of blare in a Sentence

Verb

Rock music blared through the store from the loudspeakers. Loudspeakers blared rock music through the store.

Noun

the blare of electric guitars the blare of horns arising from the long line of cars behind him did nothing to help the motorist get his car started again

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

The world's two top economies are slugging it out in a full-blown trade war and the recession warning klaxons are blaring, but still the performance numbers and milestones are astonishing. — NBC News, "Wall Street just had a record first half, up 18 percent so far this year," 28 June 2019 An announcer blares introductions happening off-camera—presumably far enough away from the Prince and Princess that their horseplay would go unnoticed. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, "Prince Charles Pranking Princess Anne Is the Best Thing You'll See Today," 8 Nov. 2018 Nina Simone’s voice blared throughout Chicago’s United Center. — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, "Radiohead Kicks Off North American Tour In Chicago With Two Encores, Dusts Off 'Pablo Honey' Track: Recap," 7 July 2018 My television, which rarely gets a rest in July, blares with the voices of two British men. — Fluto Shinzawa, BostonGlobe.com, "The soundtrack of the Tour de France," 29 June 2018 Amazon’s ads likely won’t blare out like TV or radio commercials. — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, "What It Would Mean for Amazon to Bring Ads to Alexa," 2 Jan. 2018 The Celebration Police rushed to the scene, sirens blaring. — Jason Gay, WSJ, "Clap, Clap, Clap! Sly Rebellion From the USWNT," 17 June 2019 Something ominous is clearly happening: Sirens blare in the distance, and there’s word that all businesses have been ordered to close. — (jim Carmody), San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Horror-flick chills hint at larger ills in La Jolla Playhouse’s ambitious and mysterious ‘Put Your House in Order’," 9 June 2019 When a home invasion rape occurs in Alaska’s largest city, the Anchorage Police Department sends patrol cars with sirens blaring, Deputy Chief Ken McCoy said. — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, "ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network," 16 May 2019

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Our heroes hang at the mall, ham radios are deployed, and Jim Croce blares. — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, "Stranger Things without Spoiler Things: It’s dark, different, and still delightful," 1 July 2019 The blare of Puccini, in the background, is cut off on the brink of the final chord. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, "“The Dead Don’t Die” Does the Zombie Genre to Death," 14 June 2019 An ominous warning about safety liability blares over the loudspeaker. — Robin Seemangal, Popular Mechanics, "A Workhorse Rocket Maker Tries to Touch the Sun—And Stay Relevant," 16 Aug. 2018 Sparks fly, smiles abound and music blares from some of the biggest names in electronic dance. — Kat Bein, Billboard, "Martin Garrix Adds Tchami, Lost Frequencies & More to Ushuaia Ibiza Summer 2018," 14 June 2018 Past the dining room is the garden room, a blare of white woodwork and shutters against light lavender walls and lime green chair seats. — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, "Indian Village home with gardens, koi pond is groomed to the gills," 19 May 2018 Wearing a mile-wide smile, San Francisco Mayor-elect London Breed breezed across Rosa Parks Elementary School’s auditorium stage Thursday to a standing ovation, thunderous applause and the blare of a lone air horn. — Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, "London Breed returns to her roots to celebrate election as SF mayor," 14 June 2018 Two gut-wrenching booms and then a blare of sirens out our window alerted us to the Boston Marathon bombings. — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, "Take me outside the ball game," 13 June 2018 The honks come as single horn pumps, multi-toots, and long, sustained blares. — Rachel Becker, The Verge, "How a volcano scientist set out to change American politics," 7 June 2018

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