adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Girls Aloud
laugh out loud/aloud (= laugh so that other people can hear you )
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Some parts of the book were so funny that they made me laugh out loud.
read...aloud
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He glanced at the letter and began to read it aloud .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cry
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This was very painful, and made me cry aloud .
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We were near the top when a man on the left cried aloud .
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The situation cries aloud for strong, even dramatic, and also attention-winning, arguments.
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She cried aloud in joyous elation, her body still on fire, holding on to the magical moment as long as she could.
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She heard herself cry aloud , as if she had left her body, expelled by the spasm which shook it.
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He caught Sally-Anne's wrist in his hand with such strength that she cried aloud .
groan
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She groaned aloud in pleasure when his kisses continued down to the swell of her bosom.
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At that, his mother dropped to her knees while his father wept and groaned aloud .
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As the high points of last night's blustering and boasting passed through her mind one by one, she groaned aloud .
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Her loins seemed to tear in protest, and she groaned aloud .
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And Madra there, also, he suddenly remembered, and groaned aloud as he thought of the complications ahead.
laugh
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Quddus left the room, laughing aloud .
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Uncrossing her ankles, she managed not to laugh aloud .
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She wanted to laugh aloud at the prospect of the delight she would give.
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However his ringing peroration struck most of those present as being ridiculous, and many laughed aloud .
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So, when he treated me like this, I laughed aloud .
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He looked, stared, then laughed aloud and moved.
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Jurnet laughed aloud , the sound rumbling comfortably round the little church.
read
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Rex flicked back to the appropriate page and read aloud .
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Primo reads aloud the words written underneath.
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Some reading requires quiet and calm; some reading cries out to be shared, perhaps to be read aloud .
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A few who do not dare to read aloud will ask the ones who do to read their stories too.
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The opinions are printed and handed down to the parties rather than being read aloud .
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Patten read aloud their past comments lauding the now-endangered Bill of Rights.
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In addition, the model provides no account of how pronounceable non-words are read aloud , nor of how context influences word identification.
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Or reading aloud can be a special treat on Friday nights, or holidays, or rainy Saturdays.
say
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Jess says aloud as the ball leaves her hand.
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Mother he said aloud , feeling an odd comfort in the word, the old familiarity of it.
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I said aloud , and then, horrified, I broke off.
shout
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He had to stop himself from shouting aloud with pleasure.
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And while you may not swear or shout aloud , your writing slows, words dropping stiff and stilted.
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If he shouted aloud then - as in the high alpine passes - the rocks would crash down on him.
speak
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They empathized with each other, responding to that which at no time had been spoken aloud , but understood between them.
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It was Arab feminists who insisted on speaking aloud the oldest truths, bringing upon themselves the most ferocious repressions.
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He knew that readers turn pages and speak aloud what is on the pages.
think
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What we have lived for is the dark when we think aloud to ourselves.
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He did not attempt to formulate his ideas in finished form; he thought aloud so one could hear the brain tick.
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This often took place in the pub and involved thinking aloud .
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At one juncture he found himself thinking aloud .
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Am I not to think aloud in your presence?
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She began to think aloud as she always did when I was with her.
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Through this method you stimulate the person to look at things afresh and to think aloud .
wonder
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He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether some one from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her.
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It was a verbal disaster for Stockdale, who wondered aloud what he was doing there.
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How does one write a travel book, I'd wondered aloud , how describe the sheer physicality of life?
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I nodded in agreement, and I wondered aloud whether she did the same things with feelings.
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It also shows in their embarrassed defensiveness when foreigners wonder aloud whether their public life is in need of change.
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Some commentators have wondered aloud why this should have been so.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
think aloud
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Am I not to think aloud in your presence?
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At one juncture he found himself thinking aloud.
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He did not attempt to formulate his ideas in finished form; he thought aloud so one could hear the brain tick.
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She began to think aloud as she always did when I was with her.
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This often took place in the pub and involved thinking aloud.
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Through this method you stimulate the person to look at things afresh and to think aloud.
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What we have lived for is the dark when we think aloud to ourselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He cried aloud in pain.
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The teacher read aloud to the class.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had to stop himself from shouting aloud with pleasure.
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He read the few lines through, then closed his eyes for a moment before reading aloud .
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He seems at first laconic and enervated, loathe to put a sentence together aloud .
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Justin sat in a chair at the front of the class and read aloud from Bears on Hemlock Mountain.
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Maryellen reads aloud the sign on the wall.
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She changed her mind about reading aloud to Irene, who was looking at her, she felt, skeptically.
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Some reading requires quiet and calm; some reading cries out to be shared, perhaps to be read aloud .