How to Use hue and cry in a Sentence

hue and cry

noun

• There was a hue and cry in opposition to the film.
• There was, of course, the hue and cry that the league should push things back.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2020
• The Democrats would raise a hue and cry about changing the Senate rules in the middle of the game.
  — John Yoo, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
• An app like Workrooms isn’t going to quell that hue and cry.
  — Peter Rubin, Wired, 19 Aug. 2021
• And the hue and cry has largely been over what a disservice the short is to viewers.
  — Michael Cavna, ajc, 30 Nov. 2017
• The interview will set off a hue and cry from the royal family and the British tabloids.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2021
• When morning came, there was a huge hue and cry as the theft of half the 200 gifts was discovered, leaving adults high and dry.
  — Liz Hardaway, ExpressNews.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• There was a lot of hue and cry over that process, with some Republicans crying foul, but the process worked.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Apr. 2021
• But this is the usual hue and cry, with nothing really new.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2011
• Nurses have experienced burnout for decades, yet there hasn’t been the same intense hue and cry for them as there is for physicians.
  — Timothy J. Hoff, STAT, 21 June 2018
• Black actresses give voice this winter to three gifted singers who raised a soul-stirring hue and cry destined to resound through the ages.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Once the Supreme Court invalidates the order, the usual hue and cry about the court being a tool of conservatives will begin.
  — WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• Writings from the time also raise a hue and cry about the shockingly green sky in another Faculty Painting.
  — Suhita Shirodkar, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
• The hue and cry around a repeat drunken driver killing a police officer will likely mean James, if convicted, will spend a long time in prison.
  — Keith Schubert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2019
• The public hue and cry to change Cleveland’s outfield apparently did not register with the front office.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2022
• Even as the hue and cry on the internet are loud, experts suspect the switch is limited to a tiny section of privacy-conscious users and amplified on their groups.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 12 Jan. 2021
• The Astros’ competition raised a great hue and cry against this practice, especially the New York Yankees who played them during the 2019 playoffs.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Not everyone raising the hue and cry about illiberalism has exactly this same list in mind.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• The hue and cry in Broncos Country will be to activate Lock, who hasn’t been seen on the field in anything resembling a game situation since the ballyhooed draft pick sprained the thumb on his throwing hand in August.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• Produced in November 2020, before the hue and cry over blockchain’s environmental impact hit the mainstream, the artwork uses the NFT format to present how carbon markets could be brought on-chain.
  — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 17 Feb. 2022
• The controversial sentence was part of a long answer setting out the administration’s strategy on ventilators that has, despite all the hue and cry, clearly worked.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Apr. 2020
• Suddenly, Republicans are raising a hue and cry about getting serious about mental health.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 May 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024