How to Use bellow in a Sentence

bellow

verb
  • He bellowed at her to come over at once.
  • The sergeant was bellowing orders.
  • He was bellowing into the phone, giving orders to one of his employees.
  • Old Miles bellows at his clone during one of their blowout fights.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Avoid areas where the heat vents bellow out their dry and drying air.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2024
  • These Wrigleyville crowds should be packed in and bellowing.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Those who stuck around seemed plenty willing to bellow along.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Maximus bellowed at the crowd, his voice dripping with irony.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
  • On a warm afternoon this week, one puffed out his black-and-white throat and bellowed.
    Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • No one likes getting stuck behind a huge truck bellowing out filthy fumes.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • One by one, the cannons bellowed their salute to the nation's birthday.
    Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
  • Dust bellowed from the cylindrical corral trap like smoke from stacks.
    Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The winds stoking the wildfires are forecast to pick up once more and bellow for more than a day’s length.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The savvy business woman and brassy dame who had to bellow to be heard, however?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021
  • And an announcer bellowed the four words that started to make Mom cry again.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • The Islamic call to prayer—the adhan—bellows out five times a day.
    National Geographic, 23 July 2019
  • As the final whistle sounded, roars bellowed from the terraces and the pitch alike.
    Sam Tighe, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The buffalo bellows with rage — but the peaceful hippo just feeds and sleeps.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The soulful rasp of his voice bellowed through the open-roof into the Nashville night.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 8 June 2025
  • In the background of one verse, Yebba lets out a bellowing laugh.
    Larisha Paul, VIBE.com, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In the background of one verse, Yebba lets out a bellowing laugh.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Then the men started yelling, surging forward, bellowing at the chief.
    Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • The howl rippled across the pens until every wolf lifted its nose and bellowed in chorus.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2019
  • The abrupt ending prompted the reporter to bellow with laughter.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The song marked the end of an encore, but the hundreds bellowing along with them didn’t appear at all ready to head home.
    Audra Heinrichs, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Cave’s earthy groan is a bellowing contrast to the cosmic orchestral swells that swirl around him.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The canopies were filled with screeching monkeys and the river with bellowing hippos.
    Max Bearak, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Sports radio can be loud and raucous, blaring with bluster and bellowing.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Bull screams are called bellows, and this bull’s bellow sounds a little like Chewbacca ready to throw a punch.
    Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 11 Feb. 2018

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