clamour
IPA: kɫˈæmɝ
noun
- British spelling and Canadian spelling spelling of clamor
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To salute loudly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To stun with noise.
- (transitive, obsolete) To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
- Britain and Canada spelling of clamor [(intransitive) To cry out and/or demand.]
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Examples of "clamour" in Sentences
- The Chamber broke into a clamour.
- Tou cannot muffle the clamour for change.
- Must go, the dead are clamouring to be heard.
- Christians don't seem to be clamouring to fix it.
- Ford's political advisors were clamouring for a change.
- Silence the clamour with the small noises of your body.
- The 'anti' brigade would be clamouring to get back into it.
- Instead, they are clamouring for voting rights for non residents.
- No, there is nothing there from people clamouring to be annexed by Spain.
- The Government responded to the growing clamour by appointing a commission.
- Flying waterfalls and rolling torrents outdo one another in clamour and confusion;
- But there was no clamour from the five groups that discussed in earnest undertones the question of "to be or not to be."
- The only sound I heard in all the clamour was the tread of our feet on the cobbles, and the breathing of Richard Byron beside me.
- Richard rocking with the radium – urgent passion of the night: the huge, desirous swing, the call clamour, the low hiss of retreat.
- The impotent malice of those that can but censure, and revile, and clamour, is sometimes more formidable even to wise and good men than one would think.
- In spite of an agreement that would have permitted nine minor professionals to play for Canada in 1970, this body changed its decision to satisfy the clamour from the Russians.
- In public deliberations, therefore, his voice is little heard and less regarded, except upon some particular occasions when his clamour is animated, set on, and supported by his employers, not for his, but their own particular purposes.
- Gharib’s horsemen fell on those of Jamrkan and slew fifty of them: the rest fled; nor did they cease flying till they reached their tribal camp and raised their voices in clamour; whereupon all who were in the Castle came out to meet them and asked the news.
- I recall the clamour and the clapping that came from the science community when a commonality 'bus' was proposed with man-tending for all LEO science missions and the Tug was designed to facilitate access for robotic tending in higher orbits, lifted and deployed from LEO by Shuttle and returned to earth for reuse.
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