How to Use aloud in a Sentence

aloud

adverb
  • At the end of the night, read all the superlatives aloud.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In fourth grade, at least twice a week, the girl’s teacher said a prayer aloud in class.
    Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
  • Then the day came when each child recited the poem aloud to the whole class.
    Maggie Smith, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Gmoser then read some of the chilling writings aloud in court.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker and Ken Brown, The Enquirer, 27 Mar. 2023
  • On her YouTube channel, Parton reads some of the books aloud.
    Sarah Swetlik | Sswetlik@al.com, al, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Oliver waived his right to be present when the verdict was read aloud.
    Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Some things have stayed the same, though – as in bad stuff always happens when the Book of the Dead is read aloud.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The courtroom was quiet as the guilty verdicts were read aloud.
    Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
  • According to Getty, Book of the Dead spells were meant to be read aloud.
    Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Maya cried and grasped a rosary in her hand as the jury's decision was read aloud in court.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • One evening, the group read aloud from a book of ghost stories, and then Byron challenged each of them to write one.
    Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • This was my second hint of the day that there’s something off about reading Roth aloud.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • He was transported just by reading aloud the words on the page .
    Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Cherie DeVille, an adult film star, reads the full message aloud in a video posted above the text on the website.
    David Demille, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • Kaiyo and Shoyo — say those two names aloud — are sibling restaurants about 400 feet apart.
    Dallas News, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The call was played aloud while Gibb took the stand in Vallow's Ada County murder trial.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Attendees are encouraged to dress the part and sing aloud with lyrics shown on-screen.
    Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
  • There was also the awkwardness of working out how to read the letter aloud.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Her cohost then read aloud from the guest’s prepared statement.
    Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • There was the time, mid heartbreak, when a friend and I lay in the park and read Letters to a Young Poet aloud, cover to cover.
    Carola Lovering, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
  • At each window, one of them, sometimes the author, read a poem aloud.
    Lisa Rathke, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In Farris’s telling, the girl responded by reading aloud from the front page of the newspaper.
    Emma Brown and Peter Jamison, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Not all words have to be spoken aloud to convey their message.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • One is reading aloud from the Haggadah, a Jewish text that recalls the Passover story.
    Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The professor asked her to start by reviewing the story aloud for them page by page.
    Hazlitt, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The idea was to encourage not just reading, but reading aloud.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • Some of us recited suras aloud, into the air or toward the concrete.
    Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • After viewing the images, the student can see, or hear read aloud, a caption that goes with each one.
    Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Statements from a paramedic and from a Riverwalk doorman were read aloud.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Statements from Williams' wife, Pam, and his daughter, who both did not attend the court hearing, were read aloud.
    CBS News, 9 Mar. 2024

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