How to Use out loud in a Sentence
out loud
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What a stupid thing to even think, much less say out loud.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
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Jane recites out loud this list of the things men want.
—Sara Paretsky, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
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And Pulley did what many do when the words are too tough to say out loud.
—The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
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The stamping has long since died down — at least out loud.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
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Her voice rang out loud and clear, with a hint of swagger.
—Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
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No need to say it out loud, just picture the number in your head.
—Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
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They are not voiced out loud, which means they are not resolved.
—Ilia Kiselevich, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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That’s what the record says, even if bravado won’t allow it to be said out loud.
—Dom Amore, courant.com, 5 Feb. 2022
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And Laura is learning the drill holes in it for crying out loud.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 May 2022
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Pride month may be over, but loving out loud is year-round.
—Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 13 July 2024
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Talk out loud to yourself and capture it with a voice memo.
—Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
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And the fact that nobody’s talking about it out loud is a big mistake.
—Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2022
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But even just saying that question out loud puts me to sleep.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022
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Be clear with your intention and then speak them out loud.
—Imentor, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
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That it’s not something that can be spoken about out loud.
—al, 15 June 2022
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When everyone is done, go around the table and read 'em out loud.
—Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
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Why would any normal person say that out loud, or even think that and claim it?
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
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Each evening, with the aid of a kerosene lamp, his great grandfather read passages from the Bible out loud, in Swedish.
—James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
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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
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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
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Rehan and her friends wondered out loud where their artist was.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
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Besides his saying it out loud, though — who does that?
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
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Despite the fact that these things might seem already out in the open, saying too much out loud about it might be the match that lights the flame.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2024
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Then my brother saw the letter and opened it and read it out loud and made fun of me, and I was mortified.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
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Two weeks passed until a DNA match confirmed what no one dared say out loud.
—Corina Knoll, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
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Flournoy, 80, recalled saying out loud that day in late March.
—Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
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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
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They can be said out loud or silently in your head, quietly whispered to yourself, or written down.
—Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 23 July 2024
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