tumult
IPA: tˈumʌɫt
noun
- Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
- Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
- A riot or uprising.
verb
- (obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
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Examples of "tumult" in Sentences
- But you can see the tumult in the sky.
- A fireman is even killed in the tumult.
- It seems to have been forgotten in the tumult of the times.
- The mountains quake with the tumult and the sky turns black.
- The current tumult in Kosovo completes a circle for Milosevic.
- During the tumult she is, however, killed by a blow to the head.
- An instance is the claim that the 1552 book was the result of a tumult.
- Aaron's always in the trenches, an invaluable voice in a sea of tumult.
- During the tumult that accompanied the Civil War, the mask disappeared.
- A squad of cavalry galloped along Tennessee street adding to the tumult.