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halloo

[huh-loo] / həˈlu /


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Boomers and howlers aplenty reverberated last week under western U. S. skies, advancing with gargantuan halloo on tinder-dry forests, wheat fields, grazing lands, defenceless towns.

From Time Magazine Archive

William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields.

From Time Magazine Archive

An ear-opener for listeners to whom the French horn is little more than an operatic halloo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Britain's general election campaign was enlivened by shouts of view halloo last week as the Tory Party, in full cry, prepared to close in on Harold J. Laski, Chairman of the Labor Party.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly his voice came floating back to them in a loud halloo!

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Though Congress needed no encouraging yoicks, the press joined in with rousing view halloos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over tilled hill and manicured dale they bounded with tally-hos, yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock.

From Time Magazine Archive

Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos as if at a political rally.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no point in yelling; the river was too noisy for his halloos to carry.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig


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