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
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Verb
Tunes by Chinese and Japanese pop groups blare in the dining room, the sound waves ricocheting off wooden walls decked out with recycled wine bottles stuffed with fake greenery. Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2022 In places like Suva, where Pentecostal churches blare praise music over thunderstorms, Chinese Communism may always be eyed warily.New York Times, 31 May 2022 Give people space when passing, and don’t blare music on portable speakers or through your phone. Rachel Walker, Washington Post, 9 June 2022 On a stretch of highway under construction near Chicago’s downtown skyscrapers, horns blare in standstill traffic. Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2022 Still, horns would blare, and some geniuses would swerve at me slightly. Nick Offerman, Outside Online, 21 July 2022 Prominent chefs and restaurateurs from across the country gathered at Lyric’s Civic Opera Building for the award ceremony, which began just as sirens began to blare in downtown Chicago for a tornado warning. Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2022 Headlines that blare out the latest in AI are bound to toss around the Machine Learning or Deep Learning phrasing and catch your attention. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 May 2022 Longtime Andretti mechanic Mike Miller hid a train horn under James Hinchcliffe’s golf cart that would blare uncontrollably. Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2022
Noun
Amazon’s high-profile misstep was Haven, a joint venture with Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, launched in a blare of publicity in 2018 and humiliatingly shut down in 2021. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022 Until recently, Cincinnati Reds reliever Alexis Díaz hadn’t asked his brother about the song that the New York Mets blare on the speakers every time Edwin Díaz takes the mound in New York. Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2022 Roads that were usually teeming with traffic were empty for about half an hour as pedestrians, drivers and passengers were evacuated to nearby air-raid shelters under the blare of sirens. Joyu Wang, WSJ, 26 July 2022 The video opens with Zaritska singing in Ukrainian, accompanied only by the background blare of air-raid sirens, followed by the boom of explosions.Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022 What if the Purgers just won't stop when the end-of-Purge sirens blare? Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022 The members grabbed their backpacks, gathered up half-empty bags of chips and some clementine peels to use as compost, and alighted into a blare of car horns and the blithe clamor of a midtown Saturday night. Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker, 2 June 2022 The blare of horns keeps you on edge as traffic backs up. Megan Marples, CNN, 5 July 2022 When the sirens blare, Purgers and Anti-Purgers get locked in conflict, while a few people just trying to survive get caught in-between. Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English bleren; akin to Middle Dutch blēren to shout