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Six example sentences with tumult, each labelled with its topic.
The buzzer beater set off such tumult in the arena that the announcers gave up and stopped talking.
Basketball
Accounts of the coronation describe a tumult of bells, cheering, and carriages jammed together for half a mile.
History
Behind the pass there is constant tumult, pans clattering and orders shouted, yet every plate leaves in the right order.
Cooking
The vote ended in tumult, with members shouting across the chamber and the speaker banging for order.
Politics
The trading floor descended into tumult when the numbers appeared, brokers shouting orders over one another.
Finance
The station at rush hour was pure tumult, whistles and announcements and a thousand people moving at once.
Travel
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