HUBBUB in a Sentence

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At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUBBUB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hubbub
 n.  loud noise of many confused voices; tumult; uproar.
Classic Sentence:
1  I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
2  At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
3  The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
4  It was the abyss parodied on the public place by hubbub.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
5  One thought one beheld hubbub petrified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
6  When arrived there, the cause of the hubbub was apparent to all.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
7  In spite of the distance, she could hear the hubbub of voices, questioning, calling, feel the fever- pitch tenseness of the men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  She jerked her chin up and turned away from him and suddenly she heard her own name called-- called in an unmistakable Charleston voice that rang out above the hubbub of other names.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke out from the stall which we had just left.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
10  Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  I could hardly hear myself speak above all the hubbub in the theatre bar.
2  There was a hubbub of excited conversation from over a thousand people.
3  Once the hubbub of the election had died down, it was back to normal for the President.
4  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that this entire hubbub was about him.