7 sentences with 'roar'
Example sentences and phrases with the word roar and other words derived from it.
• « We climb onto a catwalk to see the machinery from above. With a roar, a tungsten pendulum that looks like a massive bell a metre in diameter describes circles inside a funnel-shaped bowl and, like the hand of a giant pestle, reduces the boulders to bowling-ball-sized stones, which then fall into the secondary crusher. »
• « The force of the turbulence was so great that Ogden's arms seemed to come off; he felt like he was being dragged behind the captain. "Help me!" he shouted, but the roar of the air muffled his voice and co-pilot Atchison was too busy trying to control the aircraft. »
• « In the early hours of the morning there was a roar as the skiff, being driven by the wind, waves and high tide, slid into the tent and entered the side of it, almost hitting three of us and knocking over our flimsy shelter. »
• « The bus starts up with a roar, swerves and its right side is exposed. The passengers crouch down and hold their breath. It is 100 metres before they are out of sniper range; then it is only 50 metres before they are out of range. »
• « Centuries show that humans have no defence against the earth's roar: lava, electrical discharges and ash showers destroy everything, while many scholars attribute - what a contradiction - the origin of life to basic substances in the magma. »