uproar
IPA: ˈʌprɔr
noun
- Tumultuous, noisy excitement.
- Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.
verb
- (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
- (intransitive) To make an uproar.
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Examples of "uproar" in Sentences
- I cannot for the life of me understand what all the uproar is about.
- And needy teachers are awful, and usually the ones with the class in uproar …
- Attorneys whose firings sparked a political uproar is getting a second chance at the job.
- Look at the uproar from the Police auth in the Met over officer (gulp) carrying guns on duty in public!
- Did anyone expect a democratic president to nominate a conservative judge? all of this fake-uproar is laughable.
- Nick Clegg knows that he will look terrible and his party will be in uproar if he dishonours the pledges he made in opposition.
- However a lot of this uproar is about the Mayor grandstanding, making an example of some dumb celebrity, while gangs and organized crime [and plenty of them] freely roam NYC with illegal handguns.
- When they were all asked about the current economic climate, he said that publishing houses were in uproar, people falling on their swords left, right and center, but in fact sales were only down about 1%.
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