Sentence examples for become a roar from inspiring English sources

Afterwards in the bar the buzz had become a roar.

Re "The Orgy in Your Backyard," by Jeffrey A. Lockwood (Op-Ed, May 20): I am enjoying the cicadas' low hum and knowing that by midsummer, the hum will become a roar.

With increasing decibels, the voice of the Vatican has become a roar, telling all women -- not just nuns -- to be silent and obedient.

Hopefully, though, if I add my small voice to the ever-increasing outcry against such health care practices, the din will become a roar.

The occasional helicopter had already torn past, momentarily drowning out voices ("a humming overhead had become a roar," as Huxley describes their sinister advance in the novel's climactic scene) but that hardly merited a pause in conversation.

The Premier League's loud hum of gossip and rumour has become a roaring cacophony this summer.

Then, drumsticks will become a roaring blur, spitting broken tips, as his old Boss duels with him on guitar.

But, upon later returning to the pile of wood they thought their sparks had failed to ignite, they discovered it had become a roaring blaze.

Real estate values have risen sharply in a city that has become a roaring engine of growth, if also a colossal headache as a place to live and work.

After what seemed like a shaky unveiling – with mockery of its name and disappointment at its lack of certain functions – Apple's iPad has become a roaring success in the US, selling more than a million devices.

Nobody had quite anticipated that the Union, once preserved, would quickly become a roaring industrial power, with a national economy, mass immigration, big cities, an imperialist foreign policy, and — for the Progressives, most significant of all — very big, very powerful businesses that seemed to dominate national life.