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noun

clamor

a loud harsh or strident noise

In a sentence

Six example sentences with clamor, each labelled with its topic.

  • The clamor from the student section made the point guard call the play twice with hand signals.

    Basketball

  • Behind the pass, the clamor of pans, tickets, and shouted orders never dropped below a roar until midnight.

    Cooking

  • Residents recorded the clamor of the night flights and sent forty hours of audio to the airport board.

    Environment

  • The clamor of the morning market, with sellers shouting prices over crates of fish, reached our hotel window by six.

    Travel

  • Visitors to the medieval fair wrote of the clamor of bells, hawkers, and cartwheels that made ordinary conversation impossible.

    History

  • The sound designer built the trading floor scene from the clamor of two hundred extras shouting numbers at once.

    Movies

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