terrible noise

collocation in English

meaningsofterribleandnoise

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terrible
adjective
uk
/ˈter.ə.bəl/us
/ˈter.ə.bəl/
very unpleasant or serious or of ...
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noise
noun
uk
/nɔɪz/us
/nɔɪz/
a sound or sounds, especially when it is unwanted, unpleasant, ...
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(Definition ofterribleandnoisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To add to that, we have been getting aterriblenoiseout of the loudspeaker today, which interferes with everything.
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Will it be heavy-gauge metal or the light metal with metal wheels against metal tracks that will deteriorate, need regrinding and make aterriblenoise?
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We do not want people to suffer in silence whileterriblenoiseis taking place all around them.
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There is much music and banging,terriblenoiseand great disturbance.
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There is no need to have conveyors which make this enormous andterriblenoisein the pit.
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It did much to reduce theterriblenoisepollution from motorcycles, which can do more to ruin the lives of people than even coaches.
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I have an ear affliction and the pain caused by theterriblenoisefrom its engines all but caused me to collapse.
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With our great ingenuity, we have made instruments which create thisterriblenoise.
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But we shall not solve this problem by making aterriblenoiseabout the fact that prices are three or four times what they were pre-war.
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That is aterriblenoiseto make.
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A third bombardment followed, just as intense, theterriblenoiseblotting out the sound of the women praying.
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A frost worm can emitterriblenoisethat paralyzes his prey.
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There are stories of a dentist, in the 1940s, applying random sound to patients ears through earphones to mask theterriblenoiseof slow speed drills.
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He hired the worst musicians he could find to play on a balcony above the entrance, on the theory that theirterriblenoisewould drive customers inside.
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It would be valuable if this were understood by men drivers, who drive along blowing their horns and making terrible noises with their beastly exhausts.
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