Sample Sentences for
clamor
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    The furniture thumping to the floor, the teapot shattering, and the mayor's enraged shouts made a clamor that covered the sound of her footsteps as she dashed to the stairway door.  (source)
    clamor = loud noise
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    Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself.  (source)
    clamor = noisy demands
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    He did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach.  (source)
    clamor = persistent demand
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    Now that all the seals and their wives were on the land, you could hear their clamor miles out to sea above the loudest gales.  (source)
    clamor = noise
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    As for the Master he saw there was nothing else for it but to obey the general clamour, for the moment at any rate, and to pretend to believe that Thorin was what he said.  (source)
    clamour = loud demands
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use clamor.
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    I don't want the ghosts of children with green mouths pointing bony fingers at me and clamoring for bits of my chocolate bar.  (source)
    clamoring = persistently demanding
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    They were people of the desert, and clamored to hear his stories about the great cities.  (source)
    clamored = demanded or expressed strong desire to know
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    Mrs. Bennet was diffuse in her good wishes for the felicity of her daughter, and impressive in her injunctions that she should not miss the opportunity of enjoying herself as much as possible—advice which there was every reason to believe would be well attended to; and in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell, the more gentle adieus of her sisters were uttered without being heard.†  (source)
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    But the president takes a larger view, realizing that America is enthralled by such a young First Family and clamors for every morsel of news about their daily life.†  (source)
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    To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamouring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use clamoring.
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    Greedily she clamoured for ever larger, ever more frequent doses.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use clamored.
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    The bell is pressed and I do not ring or give out irrelevant clamours all jangled.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use clamors.
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    That horn is sounded more and more clamorously.†  (source)
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