How to Use outcry in a Sentence

outcry

noun

• There was a lot of public outcry over his racial comments.
• They were surprised by the outcry against the casino proposal.
• By the ’90s, there was a growing outcry to ban the song.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
• The goals have come a long way since the outcry at Google six years ago.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• There might be an outcry that the raw steps ought to be shown.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• The House of the Mouse has not commented on the film and bloody outcry.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022
• The outcry over the video prompted CMT to pull it from airing.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 July 2023
• Still, as the months wore on, there was a growing outcry among some of her fans.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024
• There is an outcry for justice to be done, and the man is sentenced to death.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The move sparked outcry from Democrats and others who urge reform of gun laws.
  — Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• The video sparked a national outcry over the young Black man’s death at the hands of three white pursuers.
  — Russ Bynum, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
• The video sparked a national outcry over the young Black man's death at the hands of three white pursuers.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 5 May 2022
• Those officers were able to meet with the child, who did not make an outcry.
  — Christina Shaw, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2024
• The outcry began in early 1973, around the time of the Roe decision.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• The president’s team has sought to calm the outcry over Gaza, with a focus on Michigan.
  — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2024
• The video has been viewed more than 9.7 million times, and led to an outcry on social media.
  — Stefano Montali, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• After an outcry, Judge Mehta opened up the court three weeks into the trial.
  — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Fines and forfeitures supplied half the town revenue, and the outcry was swift.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 27 Dec. 2022
• Amid a flurry of public outcry, the Tide was entrenched in its support of Miller.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 4 Mar. 2023
• Finally, a common outcry has been against the trawl fleet, which does take crab as bycatch in the Bering Sea.
  — Elizabeth Earl For Alaska Journal Of Commerce, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2022
• With less than 24 hours until the rally, the group moved it to the Grand Theater, a private venue in Anaheim, but the outcry over the event followed it.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• The leaker was first to break this news back in March, and there has been considerable outcry since.
  — Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Musgraves was part of the public outcry in response to Cruz's travel plans, which many deemed tone deaf.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024
• Notably, New York has taken the top spot despite some outcry that the city’s wealth is moving south.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 May 2024
• There was outcry to charge the case as a hate crime, but prosecutors never filed such charges.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
• When the fact of those conversations leaked, there was a major outcry.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The law stemmed from public outcry over San Diego’s handling of a network of thousands of smart streetlights.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
• The move caused an outcry among the creative community.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
• On Thursday, with the news of Mr. Thompson’s death amplifying public outcry about the industry, the company reversed that plan.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024
• That audio triggered a bipartisan outcry that led the administration to announce the end of the policy 48 hours later.
  — Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025