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Example sentences for "read aloud"

  • But you know--" He opened the book, and began searching for passages to read aloud, and in a little time he found a good one which he considered suitable.

  • D'you want to talk, Dick, or shall I read aloud?

  • And after tea people sometimes called; or in summer we sat in the garden or played croquet; in winter I read aloud, while they worked; after dinner I played the piano and they wrote letters.

  • And later, when she took up his supper, she had listened a moment outside the door, while he read aloud some of the texts his soul delighted in--terrible texts telling of the grim joys attendant on revenge.

  • Let me read aloud a bit to you, father," said Daisy eagerly, and he handed her the paper.

  • A short story in a magazine they appreciate, and good literature they can tolerate when it is read aloud to them by their form masters; but they cannot tackle anything solid by themselves.

  • I read aloud to her for about three hours every day from Ford Madox Hueffer's "Ladies Whose Bright Eyes" and W.

  • I took a heap of books but except in the kitchen at nights, when I read aloud, I never had any temptation to open them.

  • The dramatic element in her works is so strong that for complete enjoyment on a first acquaintance it is almost indispensable that they should be read aloud by some person capable of doing them justice.

  • The following commands may be read aloud by the child: --I ask you a question very softly.

  • One frequently sees these tiny things suddenly rise with great decision and read aloud one of the pages which has been so seriously examined.

  • Andrew talked so much about him that I took one of his books to read aloud at our sewing circle over at Redfield.

  • I used to read aloud to Bock: we went through 'Midshipman Easy' together, and a good deal of Shakespeare.

  • I had always been a lover of books, and in the days when I boarded out among the farmers I used to read aloud to them.

  • But as Peg plodded slowly up a gentle slope he suddenly pulled a book out of his pocket and began to read aloud.

  • Some account of the vendetta should not be omitted and illustrations from Prosper Merimee's "Colomba" may be read aloud.

  • If clubs can buy one book it will be found delightful at this point to read aloud "A Sister to Evangeline," by Chas.

  • For what Gwen had not read aloud was:--"Mug.

  • Then Gwen spun round on the music-stool to read aloud.

  • In the letters to her lover with which Gwen at this time filled every available minute, the amatory passages were kept in check by the hard condition that they had to be read aloud to their blind recipient.

  • Greek verse must be read aloud, and in time, 46.

  • Some of the boys, of whom I was one, had to read aloud, at home, from other books.

  • When I was a small boy, at school, sixty years ago, all the scholars had to read aloud twice a day; the several classes standing while they read, and toeing a chalk line.

  • And now, my brother, read aloud to me this scroll; nay, methinks it is ill for thy health to speak or read.

  • The man, who seemed as weary as his horse, held a paper in his hands, which the priest of that parish took from him and read aloud to us.

  • We remained overnight in New York, and that evening, at the Grosvenor, he read aloud a poem of his own which I had not seen before.

  • Howells, writing at a later time, quite naturally included it among the several manuscripts which Clemens read aloud to him.

  • One morning he read aloud a lecture given in London by George Bernard Shaw on religion, commenting as he read.

  • If six persons are playing and allowances of five minutes have been given, there will be at the end of thirty-five minutes six complete stories to read aloud.

  • Any form of music will do; or if there is no instrument some one may sing, or read aloud.

  • Each player then, for a given time, writes on the subject allotted to him, more or less in the manner of the daily press, and at the end the result is read aloud by the editor.

  • And then to sit doing cross-stitch while he read aloud to her Hallam's Constitutional History of England!

  • It was an ideal spot wherein to read aloud, and the early hours of that sunshiny afternoon found the three seated there by the brookside ready to begin the Story Book.

  • Now however that I hope I am no longer a weight on them, Mrs. Rainsforth will sometimes ask me to come and sing to him, or read aloud, when he comes home so tired that he cannot speak, and her voice is weak.

  • He then put the book in his pocket, and began, as usual, to read aloud.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "read aloud" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another visit; became known; dark gray; great multitude; grievous punishment; read about; read aloud; read prayers; read some; read the; read what; reader will; readers will; readily detected; readily distinguished; readily obtained; readily recognized; readily soluble; reading desk; reading from; reading room; reading the; ready for; shall call; similar origin; social center