loudening

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The breaking of his collar hurled him against a trunk on the other side of the car, dazed and confused A sharp approaching whistle, an ever-loudening roar in that brooding silence out there aroused him to a sense of his surroundings.

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  • It's a person with a voice lending that voice to someone who has been dehumanized, debased and locked away in a cage to rue the steadily loudening drumbeat of his impending execution. —  Paste Magazine
  • Production and distribution manager Nabil Mostafa says being featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times 'entertainment section, landing a contract with the world's largest comics distributor, Diamond Inc., and seeing his characters replace Spiderman on Cadbury-Adams Blox bubblegum wrap in Egypt is vindicating, but the company must still deal with loudening criticism of its characters' features.
  • The breaking of his collar hurled him against a trunk on the other side of the car, dazed and confused A sharp approaching whistle, an ever-loudening roar in that brooding silence out there aroused him to a sense of his surroundings. —  Frank of Freedom Hill
  • The shore was drawing away before him, the surf loudening behind him, yet he could do nothing. —  The Blue Lagoon: a romance
  • The song kept softening, loudening on, —  Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses
 

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