How To Use Kerfuffle In A Sentence

  • This kerfuffle is a distraction from the debate that we should be having.
  • A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling. BEHINDLINGS
  • Describing Landesman as "our nation's nominal top funding dog," as one blogger did during the kerfuffle over the chairman's suggestion that the nation's resident theater scene is "overbuilt" meaning the funding is thin and artists aren't making much of a living, perhaps overstates the NEA's largesse. Some thoughts about Landesman's remarks
  • There was a big kerfuffle when VoIP services first launched as to whether they should be regulated like traditional telcos.
  • Even last night, in all the kerfuffle, there was hardly a cheep out of her. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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  • There was a bit of a kerfuffle because he couldn't find his ticket before he got on the plane.
  • Today, Dolly preceded me, and there came another great kerfuffle as she thundered over to the fountain, intent on murdering the avian intruder who was defiling her property.
  • KFC's president publicly apologized for the'kerfuffle.
  • In fact, it was another 24 hours before they realised what an international kerfuffle the incident had caused, as the reaction around them in Bali itself was as if nothing much had happened.
  • The Maine meshugas reminded us of a Connecticut kerfuffle, reported by Hartford's WVIT-TV: Islamic Affirmative Action
  • I think all of the controversy and the congressional kerfuffle about this actually strengthens Mr. Bolton.
  • They're investing heavily on the wager that Americans are so kerfuffled by the slow-growth (but growth nevertheless) economy that they're willing to buy any line of nonsense as an alternative solution. Bob Cesca: The Republican Swindle About 'Obamacare and Stimulus'
  • No less than 3 people stopped by my car to see what the kerfuffle was all about and I had to explain to them that I was not, in fact, totally bonkers, but that I had a bee in my car and he wasn't getting out.
  • The resultant kerfuffle almost overshadowed the fact that they'd released a belter of an album.
  • Thanks for the nod on the IT assistant job, I know it must be a bit of a bore having to advertise it externally and all the kerfuffle it must cause.
  • And whether a 16-year-old boy wearing makeup and appearing (if it's true) "shirtless" is of as much concern as Miley Cyrus's new mature (read: scantily-clad) persona or the "Glee"/GQ photo spread kerfuffle. Is Justin Bieber wearing makeup? Do we care?
  • From what I see, ambition just puts you in a kerfuffle and doesn't give you much in return but bigger headaches than the next feller. PAINT THE WIND
  • At 75 y.o. and given that she actually has an interest in gardening, she is of an age set of Americans for whom this sort of thing would not have cause a kerfuffle. Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death
  • Even last night, in all the kerfuffle, there was hardly a cheep out of her. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • Dr. Terry A. Renner, executive director of the chemistry union, has said that barring "a major kerfuffle," the names livermorium and flerovium will be approved next May. Malcolm Kushner: It's Elementary
  • Regular readers may remember the kerfuffle over the redesignation of speed cameras as ‘safety’ cameras.
  • The worst thing about this ongoing kerfuffle over superinjunctions is that it keeps forcing me to contemplate the extra- curricular activity of men who kick balls around lawns for a living. Charlie Brooker: Why idolise footballers? It's like living in a world where half of us worship shire horses
  • There was a bit of a kerfuffle during the race when a dog impeded the leading runners.
  • The latest kerfuffle is likely to end the same way.
  • It's all part of our ability in this country to get into a kerfuffle over the philosophies of ‘living to work’ and ‘working to live’.
  • Planck's distance from today's world, filled with battling blogs, turbulent tweets and pugnacious press conferences, doesn't make his message matter any less, Brossard suggests, as we ponder the latest high-profile hullabaloo in science —NASA's arsenic microbe kerfuffle. Arsenic microbe answers a long way off
  • Even last night, in all the kerfuffle, there was hardly a cheep out of her. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • I can't think of any show I've ever been involved in that had such a kerfuffle around it.
  • It caused a diplomatic kerfuffle so he can't have forgotten about it.
  • Even last night, in all the kerfuffle, there was hardly a cheep out of her. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • Normally, I don't get too political here ... it doesn't work and people just get all kerfuffled. CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON & SENATOR
  • Ya know, I was just kerfuffled what with all those white flags wavin around and what not. Election Central Morning Roundup
  • Apart from the choice of judges, the PR machine going way beyond its remit by overselling a priapic coke-user whom they then had to sack, being deserted by Simon Cowell and then, after various related kerfuffles, turned down by Cheryl Cole, and beaten demeaningly and unaccountably in the ratings by Strictly Come Dancing, and not actually having quite enough people who could … sing … the song choices were the worse. Amelia Lily, X Factor's comeback queen, reaches end of road in talent show final
  • From what I see, ambition just puts you in a kerfuffle and doesn't give you much in return but bigger headaches than the next feller. PAINT THE WIND
  • And why the kerfuffle over canine vectorship when you're infinitely more likely to catch something life-threatening from the food itself, or something noxious from the kid at the next table (who is "quite naturally" a better vector than any dog) — and no one's banning food or children. Should we be more like the French and invite dogs to dinner?
  • We've had a kerfuffle with Lower IV, but I think I've settled them good and proper. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Even last night, in all the kerfuffle, there was hardly a cheep out of her. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling. BEHINDLINGS
  • Just as I was wiping up the last of the egg from my plate there was a general kerfuffle, with people rushing into the supermarket for shelter from a torrential downpour.
  • We've had a kerfuffle with Lower IV, but I think I've settled them good and proper. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • And yet what a kerfuffle is going on right now because of that awards night!
  • Will these be paid a hefty consultation fee, which will absorb the contentious surplus which started the kerfuffle?
  • The political kerfuffle surrounding the latest rate increase has reminded me of something I read earlier in the month.
  • Amit Roy reports on the makings of a fine literary kerfuffle.
  • There was a bit of a kerfuffle during the race when a dog impeded the leading runners.
  • Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature - Biz Stone, Twitter's, recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that We removed a setting that 3\% of all accounts had ever touched but for those folks it was beloved. … 97\% of all accounts were not affected at all by this change-the default setting is that you only see replies by people you follow to people you follow. ... Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Ironically, every Collingwood Social Club member who wanted a ticket ended up with one, so the kerfuffle was over a matter of principle.
  • Let's see ... they float all these manner of * swinging* (read stealing) the various delegates necessary to win AFTER they suck the media into a kerfuffle about Obama * stealing* language from Patrick? Can The Process That Determines Outcome In Florida And Michigan Be Hijacked? Nope.
  • September 3rd, 2003 kerfuffle: from dishevel, ruffle. September 3rd, 2003

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