How to Use clamorous in a Sentence

clamorous

adjective
  • The revolt against the 1968 Olympics, in Mexico City, was more clamorous.
    Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 6 July 2020
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The result is an ever-more-clamorous politics, and the survival of the shrillest.
    George Will, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The work’s clamorous reception at Carnegie was a kind of restitution.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 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
  • Perhaps no one in Washington is more attuned to the races playing out across this clamorous land.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Eight years of clamorous politics and four indictments later, what more can satirists say?
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • While Midtown has been a ghost town for much of the pandemic, four miles north, 125th Street in Harlem has at times felt like its old bustling self, a clamorous mix of chain stores, mom-and-pop shops and sidewalk vendors.
    New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The whistle-clean adrenalin flow Kavakos brought to the burlesque finale was exhilarating enough to have the crowd up on its feet in an instant, clamorous in its approval.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • All this is at the very heart of Mr. Hyatt’s understated movie, which takes place in the dank and clamorous Roman alleyways where slaves are bought and sold and mob violence rules.
    Charlotte Allen, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Connecticut will miss out on the emergence this spring in much of the eastern U.S. of a crawling, clamorous biomass of billions — the 17-year periodical cicadas of Brood X.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • There is always something, and usually a lot, burbling under the surface in the orchestra, with influences of the clamorous sides of John Adams and Philip Glass.
    Mark Swed, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
  • 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
  • Hello, Dolly! is the evening's closest thing to a lock for that honor, and only the most clamorous of upsets would deny its star Bette Midler the award for lead actress in a musical.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2017
  • 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
  • In the years since their clamorous beginnings, their songs have shifted and swayed, turning away ever-so-slightly from the harder edge of World of Noise and finding a home in rock music peppered with pop.
    Niko Stratis, SPIN, 14 June 2022
  • 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
  • Indeed, for Kurlansky, no food invites more clamorous debate.
    Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 11 May 2018

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