CLAMOR in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for CLAMOR, such as:

1. Now the beset him and made clamor.
2. The forest still bore its burden of clamor.
3. The king, excited by the cardinal, made a terrible clamor.
4. For a moment, in the great clamor, he was like a proverbial chicken.
5. She withdrew from the clamor into a worship of incomprehensible gods.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLAMOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
clamor
 n.  noise; loud outcry; expression of discontent or protest
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up about Ashley, indignant, fiery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She withdrew from the clamor into a worship of incomprehensible gods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  In the Minneapolis station the crowd of lumberjacks, farmers, and Swedish families with innumerous children and grandparents and paper parcels, their foggy crowding and their clamor confused her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  It would seem by the voices that twenty men were soon collected at that one spot, mingling their different opinions and advice in noisy clamor.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
5  The clamor of many voices soon announced that a party approached, who might be expected to communicate some intelligence that would explain the mystery of the novel surprise.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
6  For a moment, in the great clamor, he was like a proverbial chicken.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  Now the beset him and made clamor.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  The forest still bore its burden of clamor.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  It swelled with amazing speed to a profound clamor that involved the earth in noises.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
10  The clamor and confusion of the battle drew Miss Ophelia and St. Clare both to the spot.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
12  Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his little lungs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
13  Nothing could be more blood-curdling than the clamor of that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
14  Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
15  The king, excited by the cardinal, made a terrible clamor.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
Example Sentence:
1  Only the tribesmen increased their clamor, war-drums booming and voices raised in savage folk songs.
2  The clamor of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap.
3  The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defence followed, but the candle was soon knocked down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase.
4  He sprung his secret, but the surprise it occasioned was largely counterfeit and not as clamorous and effusive as it might have been under happier circumstances.
5  In this country women are clamoring for improvements in the sexual equality laws.