How to Use out loud in a Sentence

out loud

adverb
  • What a stupid thing to even think, much less say out loud.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Jane recites out loud this list of the things men want.
    Sara Paretsky, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • And Pulley did what many do when the words are too tough to say out loud.
    The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Her voice rang out loud and clear, with a hint of swagger.
    Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • No need to say it out loud, just picture the number in your head.
    Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • They are not voiced out loud, which means they are not resolved.
    Ilia Kiselevich, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Page asks tour guests to read some of their names out loud, and to pour out a bit of water with each name.
    Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 20 June 2022
  • The turn is that 25 years after Google Search first arrived, the name says the quiet part out loud.
    Mia Sato, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And Laura is learning the drill holes in it for crying out loud.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 May 2022
  • Talk out loud to yourself and capture it with a voice memo.
    Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Be clear with your intention and then speak them out loud.
    Imentor, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • That it’s not something that can be spoken about out loud.
    al, 15 June 2022
  • When everyone is done, go around the table and read 'em out loud.
    Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Why would any normal person say that out loud, or even think that and claim it?
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Why isn’t there a space for young, dope Black folx to just be ourselves, out loud and on purpose?
    Chelsea Sanders, refinery29.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Tyrese, who is a girl dad, has always loved his kids out loud and been a man of grand gestures.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 26 May 2022
  • Besides his saying it out loud, though — who does that?
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Two weeks passed until a DNA match confirmed what no one dared say out loud.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Flournoy, 80, recalled saying out loud that day in late March.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • As a kid, his dad would lay next to him before bed and read Superman comics out loud.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • Be ready to laugh out loud and dance in your seat during this 1-hour ode to hungry dragons.
    oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
  • These were words Jean had heard Angie say out loud before, many times.
    Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • The audience, full of eye rolls, struggled to keep from laughing out loud.
    Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • For me, the biggest laugh out loud moment in the entire series thus far is the fact that Despair wears Crocs.
    Alex Raiman, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The cheering from the late-night audiences rang out loud and proud Thursday night.
    Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The friction of opposites — the grotesque and the beloved — is the soul of DiRusso’s sound and hinges on her willingness to say the quiet parts out loud.
    Sarah Grant, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • One of my favorite ways to get a character is to read the entire script out loud in that accent.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • There is carpeting in the entrance, for crying out loud.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Kanye simply said out loud what many of us were already thinking.
    Essence, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The person who made up the category will then read all the responses out loud.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 22 Feb. 2023

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