bellowed; bellowing; bellows
1
: to make the loud deep hollow sound characteristic of a bull
2
: to shout in a deep voice
: 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
Steam engines bellowed into town, ringing the bell and tooting the train whistle to alert inhabitants that a new age of travel had arrived.
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Curtis Varnell, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
Early attempts to replicate the human voice had involved the construction of mechanisms modelled on human anatomy: rubber lips, wooden teeth, bellows for lungs.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
The president’s bellowing recitation of his accomplishments served as a vivid reminder of the bullet so recently deflected by Nancy Pelosi and her ruthless fellow Democratic Party panjandrums by hustling the would-be nominee into political oblivion.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Rambling, visibly irritated with the occasional fact-checking from ABC News moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir, and bellowing over everyone on and off the mics, the Trump of the second POTUS debate of 2024 was a clone of the off-the-leash Trump of the first POTUS debate of 2020.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
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Curtis Varnell, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
Early attempts to replicate the human voice had involved the construction of mechanisms modelled on human anatomy: rubber lips, wooden teeth, bellows for lungs.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
The president’s bellowing recitation of his accomplishments served as a vivid reminder of the bullet so recently deflected by Nancy Pelosi and her ruthless fellow Democratic Party panjandrums by hustling the would-be nominee into political oblivion.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Rambling, visibly irritated with the occasional fact-checking from ABC News moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir, and bellowing over everyone on and off the mics, the Trump of the second POTUS debate of 2024 was a clone of the off-the-leash Trump of the first POTUS debate of 2020.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Bellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bellow. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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