How to Use clamorous in a Sentence

clamorous

adjective
  • And yet, to be fair, both players are given their say, and their clamorous voice, in equal measure.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The polite applause of the first week has given way to a clamorous din, as people bang pots and pans.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Have you been awakened just after 4 in the morning by the clamorous dong-dong-dong of a light rail horn?
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
  • Each super brood, emerging on time in all its messy, clamorous splendor, is nothing short of good.
    — Travis Meier, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • Residents across the city might have heard a clamorous noise and gazed out their windows to see a bright yellow plane in the sky.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 11 May 2020
  • And if its critics have seldom been more clamorous, the creed has never been so necessary.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • The cuffs are a Hitchcockian clue, and the whole movie is clamorous with echoes of earlier works.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • The result is an ever-more-clamorous politics, and the survival of the shrillest.
    — George Will, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Eight years of clamorous politics and four indictments later, what more can satirists say?
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The work’s clamorous reception at Carnegie was a kind of restitution.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Running through the streets, kids got a thrill from pulling fire alarms and then hiding around the corner to see the clamorous engines arrive.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Perhaps no one in Washington is more attuned to the races playing out across this clamorous land.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In front of a clamorous home crowd, the Bucks pulled ahead early, and their lead ballooned to as much as thirty-two points in the first half.
    — Eben Pindyck, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2017
  • If only the world weren’t so clamorous, Herbst could have gotten back to the novels she was meant to be writing.
    — Sarah Watling, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2023
  • Indeed, for Kurlansky, no food invites more clamorous debate.
    — Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018
  • Throngs of people responded to the union in clamorous support, shared food at the picket line, and donated to strike funds.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Threads of those formative years appear in Simmons’s work, which often shifts between the clamorous and the calm.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The date matters, for punk is in full cry, and Enn gets his teen-age kicks from going to see terrible but pleasingly clamorous bands.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • After that prologue, the floodgates were open; the rest of the premiere was a clamorous scene of whooping, hollering, and clapping.
    — Natalia Winkelman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The series is punctuated by a clamorous display of modern music.
    — Luaine Lee, The Seattle Times, 7 July 2017
  • Herring gulls, clamorous and territorial, were parked on the jumbled rock jetties.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 5 Jan. 2021
  • But what is more impressive, especially in our nonstop, clamorous, crazy world is the sense of silence these photos seem to capture.
    — Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • As the world seems to become louder, more clamorous and hotter, my need for a landscape that would get Robert Burns reaching for his quill grows greater.
    — Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Styling updates are a little too subtle, clamorous engine sound under heavy throttle, EV mode only goes for about one mile.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The government has pushed the clamorous profusion of flower vendors off the sidewalks around the city’s famous flower market.
    — Seth Mydans, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
  • The revolt against the 1968 Olympics, in Mexico City, was more clamorous.
    — Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • Upon catching the train to work, every bit of noise and motion became more prominent and clamorous in my headspace, causing a developing headache.
    — Raj Tawney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The actors are the movie’s great superpower and give it warmth, even a bit of heat, and a pulse of life that’s never fully quelled by the numerous clamorous action sequences.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Chief Justice John Roberts issued the court's opinion, calling the state's effort to make polling places less clamorous worthy.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 14 June 2018
  • The Muppets lived on the spectrum between quiet and loud, serene and clamorous, and the switches from one end to the other were some of the defining marks of the show’s humor.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2021

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