All 7 Uses
clamor
in
Nectar in a Sieve
(Auto-generated)
- How well I recall it, how grateful I am that not all the clamour which invaded our lives later could subdue the memory or still the longing for it.†
Chpt 1clamour = loud noise and/or persistent demands
- The baby, who had slept through all the clamour, woke up now in the sudden hush and began squalling.†
Chpt 3 *
- One morning, so early that the dew still jewelled the grass and the clamour of the tannery had not yet begun, I went out on my errand.†
Chpt 5
- Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?†
Chpt 19
- I had known it since the day the carts had come with their loads of bricks and noisy dusty men, staining the clear soft greens that had once coloured our village and cleaving its cool silences with clamour.†
Chpt 23
- The noise never let up: car horns, bicycle bells and the cracking of whips combined to produce a deafening bewildering clamour, amid which is was impossible to heed every warning sound.†
Chpt 24
- All that day and many following, I sat by the side of the road leading to the bazaar calling to those who passed, adding to the general clamour.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
-
(1)
(clamor) loud noise and/or persistent demands -- especially from human voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)