The word 'roaring' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sound, such as a lion's roar, and to emphasize a feeling, such as joy or excitement. For example, "The crowd erupted in a roaring cheer when the final goal was scored."
In fact I am sure that I never experienced, as a child, any kind of encounter with the sublime, that catch in the throat, that tightness of the lungs, that sudden, roaring sense of one's extreme smallness in a huge, awful, beautiful world.
There was a nod to civilian life in Pakistan with a series of floats, including one bearing a pair of roaring electronic dinosaurs and others for each of country's different regions – the mountainous north was represented by men dressed as mountaineers pretending to scale a model of K2.
I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox and the salesman called over all the other salesmen and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
You can even stop to defrost in front of a roaring pub fire.
Updated at 11.08am BST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.01am BST11 01 Preamble Hello and welcome to the second stage of this year's Tour de France – this 201km pelt from York to Sheffield marks the end of the Tour's sojourn in Yorkshire, and by and large, it's been a roaring success.
And when the lightning arrives – caused by heat, humidity and Andean winds, and accompanied by roaring thunder – it explodes in all directions burning jagged bolts into your retina.
But the automated ones provide a fabulous opportunity: all that pent-up rage at the modern world comes roaring out.
Yet here was Allen openly laughing at him and, more strangely, my parents were roaring with laughter as well.
Watching any ITV at all over the last month was like having the world's surliest policeman standing an inch from your face roaring "Nothing to see here!" over and over again.
An hour later, they were still roaring outside Mestalla, thousands gathered long after the game had ended.
The venue was emblazoned with Ugandan flags, paper copies of which were handed out for free at the entrance, while a roaring trade in Yoweriana (key rings and laminated A4 pages with images of Museveni) was conducted.
