[ US /ˈəˌpɹɔɹ/ ]
[ UK /ˈʌpɹɔː/ ]
NOUN
  1. loud confused noise from many sources
  2. a state of commotion and noise and confusion
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How To Use uproar In A Sentence

  • The uproar in both cases was swift and decisive. Times, Sunday Times
  • A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle.
  • Look at the uproar from the Police auth in the Met over officer (gulp) carrying guns on duty in public! Have You Heard The One About……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The Brits, with their propensity for schoolboy humour and scatology, deal with the subject by uproarious laughter.
  • It took the intervention of the media, and the consequent uproar to stop what would have been a truly monumental blunder.
  • And the future, the value of residential, the developer of housing in the green again, we run out laugh uproariously .
  • I didn't expect him until dinnertime. He just about scared the bejabbers out of me as he sneaked up behind me and burst into this sudden, uproarious laughter.
  • But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes. Wuthering Heights
  • Initially, there will be uproar with protests and dire warnings of disaster. The Sun
  • There is bound to be an ethical uproar when the advisory body reports its recommendations.
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