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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bellow.

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Examples

  • In July this year, Time magazine published on its cover page the photo of an Afghan woman whose nose was cut off; the title bellowed: 'What happens if we leave Afghanistan.'

    Abdulhadi Hairan: Is Time's Aisha Story Fake? 2010

  • For a while, I thought my historic rally experience was going to consist entirely of hearing that phrase bellowed over and over by a park police officer.

    John Marshall: Sane-dinista! John Marshall 2010

  • For a while, I thought my historic rally experience was going to consist entirely of hearing that phrase bellowed over and over by a park police officer.

    John Marshall: Sane-dinista! John Marshall 2010

  • The stag bellowed again and turned and ran to the woods.

    Hollow-bellied Jack « A Fly in Amber 2007

  • The good doctor coloured up with pleasure to hear his boy's name bellowed forth approvingly by a thousand excited lungs.

    The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • He’s just about to say something in reply when his name is bellowed from a carload of guests pulling up into the space next to us and a small army of women in pastel suits clamber out and start mobbing him.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • He’s just about to say something in reply when his name is bellowed from a carload of guests pulling up into the space next to us and a small army of women in pastel suits clamber out and start mobbing him.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Even when the cowardly lad "bellowed" (as his school-fellows called his usual mode of crying) so that nothing else could be heard,

    The Crofton Boys Harriet Martineau 1839

  • Even when the cowardly lad "bellowed" (as his school-fellows called his usual mode of crying) so that nothing else could be heard,

    The Crofton Boys Harriet Martineau 1839

  • "Haw! haw!" bellowed "Bluey," "so that's the feller that done Parker out of his job!

    Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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  • "I think I can get the fire going!" bellowed Tom.

    November 28, 2008