Explore Shout through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cry or utter. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Shout in a sentence
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Shout meaning
- A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort.
- A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
- A call-out for an emergency services team.
Synonyms of Shout
Using Shout
- The main meaning on this page is: A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or great effort. | A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks. | A call-out for an emergency services team.
- Useful related words include: cry, utter, cry out, call out.
- In the example corpus, shout often appears in combinations such as: to shout, shout out, and shout.
Context around Shout
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shout
- In this selection, "shout" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hebrew, great, greater, slogans, bingo and players stand out and add context to how "shout" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a great shout go up and able to shout for jesus. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shout" sits close to words such as altercation, contamination and currencies, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shout
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
If you can shout for LeBron, you got to be able to shout for Jesus, man. (16 words)
A moment or two later the chemist hears a great shout go up outside, followed by an even greater shout. (20 words)
Drake paused his setlist to shout out the particularly lit fan and surprise her with the high-ticket luxury item. (20 words)
As a young soldier, he had loved to watch “Jeopardy!” and shout out the answers before the contestants did, but as time went on his memory became so spotty that he often had trouble finding his keys. (37 words)
Although she didn't love her Gala experience, the actress gushed about her gorgeous dress - even giving it a shout out on Instagram in 2018, over a decade after she first wore it. (33 words)
At its March induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the 2023 Juno Awards in Edmonton, lead guitarist and vocalist Chad Kroeger gave a shout-out to their rural Alberta roots. (33 words)
If you are representing your client, do it very well, not for you to come and shout if you shout at me, where will you go? (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
Joshua and the Israelites were instructed to shout (In Hebrew, "shout" in this verse is a shout of joy and victory.
If you can shout for LeBron, you got to be able to shout for Jesus, man.
A moment or two later the chemist hears a great shout go up outside, followed by an even greater shout.
If you are representing your client, do it very well, not for you to come and shout if you shout at me, where will you go?
Shout out to this awesome mom doing what it takes to make ends meet and shout out to her work for allowing her to bring him!” she wrote.
According to witnesses, the targeted girl in the crowd was simply jumping up and down before the killjoy guard tried to stop her - causing the pop star to shout at him.
Activists from Sikh organizations shout slogans after offering prayers at the Golden Temple on the 38th anniversary of Operation Blue Star in Amritsar on June 6, 2022.
After a description of how to play, the games began, and many children had the opportunity to shout “Bingo!” by the end of the night.
Although she didn't love her Gala experience, the actress gushed about her gorgeous dress - even giving it a shout out on Instagram in 2018, over a decade after she first wore it.
And look, our collection unit improve their performance sharply and a shout out to that for helping us improve our performance here.
A recent example comes from Nexus Mods user Acure8, who's given the world "Fus Ro Diculous," a mod for that makes a few changes to the first Shout players get.
Armed officers shout at Alderton to get out of the vehicle with his hands in the air before telling him to lie on the ground and put his hands behind his back.
As a young soldier, he had loved to watch “Jeopardy!” and shout out the answers before the contestants did, but as time went on his memory became so spotty that he often had trouble finding his keys.
At its March induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the 2023 Juno Awards in Edmonton, lead guitarist and vocalist Chad Kroeger gave a shout-out to their rural Alberta roots.
At the same time, the government is choosing to shout about some measures that are not in the King’s Speech but where it spies important reforms or political advantage anyway.
Describing it as “the most amazing city with the best of everything,” Ms Grant said Liverpool needed to shout louder about itself.
Don’t just shout at the telly, spout unproved theories on TikTok and rock up at the crime scene with a spade and a phone camera.
Drake paused his setlist to shout out the particularly lit fan and surprise her with the high-ticket luxury item.
For reasons that are poorly understood, the dream content is usually violent - patients report being chased, or defending themselves, and as they sleep they shout, moan, scream, kick, punch and thrash about.
Founded by Richard Foos, Bob Emmer, and Garson Foos in 2003, Shout! owns and manages a large portfolio of films, contemporary and classic TV series, animation, and documentaries.
Common combinations with shout
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to shout 51×
- shout out 42×
- and shout 18×
- shout about 14×
- shout at 13×
- shout for 11×
- shout slogans 9×
- the shout 7×
- shout to 6×
- shout of 5×