[ US /ˈkɫæmɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. make loud demands
    he clamored for justice and tolerance
  2. compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring
    They clamored the mayor into building a new park
  3. utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
    The delegates clamored their disappointment
NOUN
  1. a loud harsh or strident noise
  2. loud and persistent outcry from many people
    he ignored the clamor of the crowd
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How To Use clamor In A Sentence

  • Both men are from Brooklyn, both have children named Satchel, both are basketball fans, devout Knicks supporters, and both have made the clamorous city of New York their sound stage.
  • In fact, students clamor for the courses - admittedly, more loudly in some regions of the country than others.
  • In the 16th and 17th centuries, the cries turned still more colourful and clamorous, as a kind of auditory arms race developed between the vendors.
  • You killed him you killed him you... Through the clamor, I tried to think. SILENT JOE
  • Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
  • In any case, public clamor for inoculations might require a liberal vaccination program after an outbreak.
  • The thing is reduced to a cruel mockery when stores and granaries are over-gorged, while people clamor in vain for clothing and food, and drop dead within reach of these prime elements of warmth and sustentation. Black and White
  • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
  • Upon opening the door, the clatter of trays on silverware and the clamor of voices competing with one another washed over them.
  • Clinton the elder here withdrew, and had scarcely disappeared when two voices were heard in the hall, in a kind of clamorous remonstrance with each other, which voices were those of Father Magowan and our friend The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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