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hoot

verb as in cry

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Its lonely, hooting whistle pierced the air, until the children winced and pressed their hands over their ears.

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Even the wolves found this conversation interesting, as you might well imagine, but the discussion was cut short by a hooting, unnatural sound, coming from a far distance.

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When the conductor sounded three deafening, mournful hoots on the train whistle, the children covered their ears and howled even more loudly in protest.

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Elton’s motivations don’t make sense, but at least Cera barges into the movie with so much energy that his sequence is a hoot.

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The freshly revamped, DJ-driven lounge in downtown’s historic core filled out with loft-dwelling locals still getting mileage from their Halloween costumes, while incoming Dodger fans hooted and revved their engines out on Main Street.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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