Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Roar (Verb)
Roar as doth the sea.
—Anonymous
Roared like a burning devil.
—Anonymous
Roared like a burning lumber yard.
—Anonymous
Roars like a demon in torture.
—Anonymous
Roars like a lion.
—Anonymous
Roars like a mad bull.
—Anonymous
Roared like an angry sea.
—Anonymous
A roar deep as the murmuring of Ætna.
—John Banim
Roaring like Juno in the Tragedy.
—Robert Burton
Roared and murmured like a mountain stream dashing or winding as its torrent strays.
—Lord Byron
Roared like breakers in the night.
—Aubrey De Vere
Roar as by the evil one possessed.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Roaring like a foundered horse.
—Maurice Hewlett
Roaring like a tempest.
—Victor Hugo
Roars in the gloaming
Like an ocean of seething champagne.
—Charles Kingsley
Roared like water which rushes from a lock when the gates are open.
—Camille Lemonnier
Roaring like a lion for his food.
—Robert Lloyd
Roars like a flame that is fanned.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Roared as if smitten by some god.
—Lucian
Roar like a devil with a man in his belly.
—Andrew Marvell
Roared like a battle.
—John Masefield
Roar like mad waves upon the shore.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Roars like a bull.
—Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen
Roars … like a swift pursuing hound.
—Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Roar
Like ocean battling with the shore.
—T. Buchanan Read
Roareth like the sea.
—Old Testament
Roars like a bull of Bashan.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Rough repetition roars in rudest rhyme,
As clappers clinkle in one charming chime.
—Bonnell Thornton
Roaring like a bear.
—William Ward
Roar like lions for their prey.
—William Wordsworth