Verb (used with object) : He bellowed his command across the room. From Dictionary.com.
People think of him as a grunter and a brainless bellower but that's not him, it's the cave-man roles he sings. From Wordnik.com. [Heppner does Wagner] Reference
The Confederacy needed a moderate -- one who was practical, not perfunctory; a diplomat, not a zealot; a statesman, not a bellower. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Frye: Was there a better choice for C.S.A. president than Jefferson Davis?] Reference
Whilst staying in the town I heard an account from several of the inhabitants, of a hill in the neighbourhood which they called "El Bramador," — the roarer or bellower. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Rosie O'Donnell was always more of a bellower than a screecher, and the people in charge of The View didn't like Rosie's blog, but aside from that she was a perfect fit for the show. From Wordnik.com. [Rosie O’Donnell’s Price Is Right Bid Goes Tits Up] Reference
Van Meter went on to describe how capably Clinton played the crowd, cracking jokes about herself and earning big laughs, and in a later letter to Vogue, a young man would write to kvell about Clinton and take credit for having been the bellower. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls Don’t Cry] Reference
‘A — hem!’ cried the same voice; and that, not in the tone of an ordinary clearing of the throat, but in a kind of bellow, which woke up all the echoes in the neighbourhood, and was prolonged to an extent which must have made the unseen bellower quite black in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
Nobody had, as it seemed; whereupon the bellower turned upon us. From Wordnik.com. [Branded] Reference
Whilst staying in the town I heard an account from several of the inhabitants, of a hill in the neighbourhood which they called El Bramador, the roarer or bellower. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XVI] Reference
It was a shame, of course, to subject a lovely voice like hers to singing in the great vacancy of all outdoors, to say nothing of forcing it into competition with a shouter and bellower like. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wollaston] Reference
He sounded that way, too, once he broke away to discuss the origins of his new album, "Women + Country," a twangy collection featuring alt-country bellower Neko Case on harmonies and the red-hot-again T Bone Burnett as producer. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The royal army, like shafts of lightning across the hideous gloom, advanced (and we in their rear); ere long the uproar falls upon their ears; a fiendish bellower cries, "Silence, in the King's name!" to no purpose, it would be an easier task to hale apart old beavers than one of these. From Wordnik.com. [The Visions of the Sleeping Bard] Reference
A calf having been lassoed, it was hauled up and its head held down by a plank, when a hot brand was handed to a man standing ready to press it against the creature's skin, where an indelible mark was left, when the little bellower was allowed to rise and make its escape into another pen. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Australia] Reference
Yes, old bellower, "he continued, looking back," it is long since thou hast heard the noise of battle; -- and look at it ere we begin, stranger, for if you fall, I will commit your body to its waters. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number] Reference
Yes, old bellower,” he continued, looking back, it is long since thou hast heard the noise of battle; — and look at it ere we begin, stranger, for if you fall, I will commit your body to its waters.”. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
Hold your tongue, you little bellower!. From Wordnik.com. [I. Charitable Souls. Book IV] Reference
With my left I behold your bellower a cur chase. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
One big bellower. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2006] Reference
The old girl, though -- bellower she is -- perfectly top-hole; familiar with cattle -- all that sort of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ruggles of Red Gap] Reference
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