out loud

Idioms and Phrases

Audibly, aloud, as in I sometimes find myself reading the paper out loud , or That movie was hilarious; the whole audience was laughing out loud . First recorded in 1821, this synonym for aloud was once criticized as too colloquial for formal writing, but this view is no longer widespread. Moreover, aloud is rarely used with verbs like laugh and cry . Also see for crying out loud .

Example Sentences

I’ve talked to myself on the trail, laughed out loud and sung — poorly but proudly — into those magnificent voids.

From Los Angeles Times

Winfrey said "my life changed forever for the better" after she met him, and described him as "love lived out loud in human form".

From BBC

“Some of the things he says, it’s all right to say it at a bar with your buddies, but you don’t say that stuff out loud,” said Schofield, a 63-year-old chemical salesman.

From Los Angeles Times

“If they have that much money lying around in the county budget, they should all be fired, for crying out loud.”

From Los Angeles Times

One man watched cartoonist Scott Adams’s podcast out loud on his phone and another woman filmed different people in the crowd while yelling “Trump, Trump, Trump.”

From Salon

Related Words

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