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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
  • 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
  • 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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  • The conch was silent, a gleaming tusk; Ralph's face was dark with breathlessness and the air over the island was full of bird-clamor and echoes ringing.  (source)
    clamor = loud noise
  • 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.
  • It tried to buck once more and failed. The crowd was clamoring.  (source)
    clamoring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
  • All that lay between was too clamorous, too fluid to understand, though she sensed she had succeeded, even triumphed.†  (source)
  • I replied to the yells of him who clamored.  (source)
    clamored = was yelling
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself.†  (source)
    clamouring = demanding loudly and/or persistently
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use clamoring.
  • Greedily she clamoured for ever larger, ever more frequent doses.†  (source)
    clamoured = made loud noise and/or persistent demands
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use clamored.
  • That horn is sounded more and more clamorously.†  (source)
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