UPROAR in a Sentence

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Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel.

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 Meanings and Examples of UPROAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
uproar
 n.  loud confused noise from many sources
 n.  a state of commotion and noise and confusion
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  This uproar delighted the young girls.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
2  An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the jury; it was evident that the man was lost.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
3  He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the patrol.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
4  However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so much as the shadow of a misgiving.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
5  Indignation and uproar in the establishment.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN
6  It was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
7  Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
8  A sombre calm had succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few moments before.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
9  Showers mingled with thunder shook the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and opportune uproar.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
10  A few moments later, that terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape broke forth in the prison.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
11  This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with the vast surrounding uproar.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
12  The alarm bells and a vague and stormy uproar were audible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT
13  For the last hour, that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, the uproar of a fly in a bottle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL
14  A clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that some sinister construction of iron was approaching.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
15  This repression was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS
Example Sentence:
1  There was uproar over the tax increase.