tumult

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I couldn't hear her over the tumult.

Lina clutched the edge of the clock tower as if the tumult below might cause her to fall.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

A tumult of conversation rose behind him.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

The teams walked onto the field to tumultuous applause.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

...as the music swells tumultuously.  (source) Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, 1945

Then an unmistakable voice rose above the tumult and there was immediate silence.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.†  (source) Jay Allison, et al., This I Believe, 2007

Then, amid tumultuous applause, out walked Gordie Howe, one of the legends of the game.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

At a wave of my hand my deliverers hurried tumultuously away.  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum, 1850

Then these separate sounds collided into the general tumult of his body falling clumsily down the white marble stairs.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Over this tumultuousness and family heat, melding yells at the pinochle table, the racing of the kids, pitchers of cocoa and tea and masses of coffee cake carried in, political booming and the sharper neighing of women and all this grand vital discord, there was the supervision of Uncle Charlie standing, or rather rearing, beside his wigged mother in her black dress.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

Then came a ringing and knocking at the front door, that grew at last tumultuous,  (source) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

Then, when he was about to telephone to Biltz to ascertain whether there was such a family as Alden possessing a daughter by the name of Bert, or possibly Alberta, he was most providentially, as it seemed to him, interrupted by two men and a boy, trappers and hunters of this region, who, accompanied by a crowd of those now familiar with the tragedy, were almost tumultuously ushered into his presence.†  (source) Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, 1925

I was lucky to survive the tumultuous years of my youth.

She's writing a book of Afghanistan's tumultuous history.

Here the glacier spills abruptly over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice. As I stared at the tumult from a mile away, for the first time since leaving Colorado, I was truly afraid.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The physical fight between them is over, replaced by a raging tumult within Lale.  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

From this sprung the rebellion at Urbino and the tumults in the Romagna, with endless dangers to the duke, all of which he overcame with the help of the French.†  (source) Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513

Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

His thoughts had rushed through his head so tumultuously that perhaps he hadn't got them down in order clearly and sanely.  (source) Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, 1939

They had broken into tumult instead of action.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

And if his successors had been united they would have enjoyed it securely and at their ease, for there were no tumults raised in the kingdom except those they provoked themselves.†  (source) Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513

Yesterday was a very tumultuous day, and we're still all wound up.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Here, things were obviously in a bit of a tumult.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?†  (source) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, 1850

A great cry went up from the people as they saw crashing, tumultuous waters fill the dark hole.  (source) Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima, 1972