How to Use hubbub in a Sentence

hubbub

noun
  • We went to the country to escape the hubbub of the city.
  • What's all the hubbub about?
  • All the hubbub in the airport made it hard to hear the flight announcements.
  • The hubbub of a pub heard when the door opens to the street.
    Fay Bound Alberti, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The hubbub of the dispersing crowd joined with the other sounds of the city.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
  • All of this, of course, just adds to the happy hubbub in the library.
    Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • The hubbub over the suits began midway through the 2014 Games.
    Andrew Keh, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The wealthy have the means to escape the hubbub; the rest of us must cover our ears with our hands.
    Dwight Garner, Esquire, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Why not buy a ticket and see what all the hubbub is about?
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
  • The hubbub over Kennedy and Choco Taco inspired me to seek out both.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • Scott and Sofia are used to a certain amount of press, but all the hubbub would irk me.
    Anna Millard, refinery29.com, 27 May 2018
  • Just a few years ago, all of this hubbub was unheard of.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2021
  • People in wheelchairs had to wait for breaks in the hubbub to get a glimpse at all.
    Katy Steinmetz/san Francisco, Time, 17 Mar. 2018
  • When the paper came out in April, there was so much hubbub about it.
    Jessica Ravitz, Smithsonian, 9 Dec. 2019
  • In the cooling shade of the Gobi tent, the music felt like a balm for the noise and hubbub of the weekend to come.
    Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The kids looked forward to their night at Aunt Jackie’s, away from the hubbub.
    Kate Storey, Town & Country, 4 July 2023
  • Tresco The second largest island, Tresco feels a world away from the hubbub of St Mary's.
    Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 June 2024
  • The hubbub prompts the question: Is Free Shipping Day worth it?
    NBC News, 14 Dec. 2019
  • If that’s not enough, 100 trees dot the landscape to help the owners feel far away from neighbors and the hubbub of the city.
    Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Over the course of the last year there’s been a lot of hubbub around South Beach’s Collins Park neighborhood.
    Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But walk toward the heart of the hubbub, past the smoke of sizzling turkey legs, and the scene transforms.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023
  • When the hubbub dies down, the weird stuff starts happening.
    G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • And with so much hubbub around the films comes a lot of fun red carpet moments.
    Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 14 July 2023
  • Time to wake up, to free ourselves from the hubbub, to slip off our numb, dying selves, and come alive to the least of these.
    Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Online, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Push-carts loaded with sacks of grain bump and jostle through the hubbub.
    The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Which suggests that this was a whole lot of hubbub over a whole lot of nothing.
    Jake Woolf, GQ, 6 Mar. 2018
  • As a veteran of the race, he wasn’t rattled by the other teams and all the hubbub around him.
    Alex Kormann, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The hubbub came at the start of the men’s singles draw when Jack Draper’s name appeared in the second slot in the 128-man field.
    Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The actress declined to speak to the media and opted for a more low-key route around the hubbub of the carpet.
    Sydney Bergan, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
  • Despite the hubbub, the vibe is relaxed and inviting in the living room, which comprises a sitting area and a desk zone.
    Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 12 July 2024

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