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unpleasantly loud and harsh

Raising raucous cries, the crows soar down to all parts of the city like dive bombers.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

] Their song is charming —a bit raucous perhaps, but it does have charm!
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
The sea outside was a raucous blue, dusted with tiny whitecaps.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
Dimly he heard Saphira bugle and the warriors cheering raucously around them.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
He played guitar in a garage band—at the school's annual talent show, they played a raucous take on "House of the Rising Sun.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
When the raucous scream of a seagull woke her, Hilde got out of bed.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
They left the lazy, insect-humming air of the bayou behind and landed in bustling, raucous New Orleans.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
Vera said with a raucous laugh: "Cold?
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
By the time she made it to the Great Hall, it was raucous with a few thousand Circlers.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
There came another flash of trumpets and a raucous sound upon the air.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
And he felt like a mother seal, yes, a mother, not some raucous coughing bull or whatever the male is called—he would have to look it up.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
I think about all that great early punk and the raucous paintings I used to do.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Their racy humor, raucous laughter, and breezy, unearned intimacy with me make me a little nervous.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
Dunbar shouted at him emphatically in a voice rising clearly above the raucous commotion.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Helen burst into a raucous angry laugh, looking at his sullen face, and prodding him roughly with her big fingers.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
He is so much like me when I was ten, so unlike our Mitt, whom Lelia and my father and I let raucously trample over all our custom and ceremony.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
His deep, raucous voice had thrilled them as it uttered the word of belief and submission.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
Enormous buildings stretched to the sky in the distance while raucous traffic whizzed through Greenwich Village streets.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
The wind blew from off the water to the northwest and swept raucously down Hill Street.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
As they were making a way round the raucous tables Turner saw a naval party coming along the front and stopped to watch.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement

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