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.
White Fang does not make an uproar, but rather follows quietly, stalking the stranger.
Such defiantly provocative work, and the uproarious punk music which accompanied it, won him cult status.
The uproar led to the establishment of bioethics committees to oversee research.
Given the uproar at that time, Mr. Stimson had to resign as was described in the WSJ at cully-stimson-resigns. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney
But news of the deaths has caused uproar on the set, with cast members complaining they were not consulted. The Sun
Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
1When the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples and, after encouraging them, said good-by and set out for Macedonia.
She could also be light-hearted and uproariously funny.
The move is expected to cause uproar from trade unions. Computing
If this had happened to a prominent citizen, it surely would have created an uproar.
And imagine the uproar when we discover the standard issue boot doesn't come with a kicky little heel.
I cannot for the life of me understand what all the uproar is about. Scripting News for 1/25/2007 « Scripting News Annex
In the ensuing uproar - fueled by people who were not comparably scandalized when George W. Bush was sulfurously vilified - her opponent raised nearly $2 million and her lead shrank from 13 points to her winning margin of 3. Theleafchronicle.com - Local News
Burn's suppers range from formal gatherings to uproariously informal rave-ups of drunkards and louts.
These so-called progressive women are more than happy to essentialize gender roles if it means oppressing someone that is not like them but you can rest assured that if it meant that they were forced to perform genderized work i.e. stay home and play good little wife while the husband works, you would hear an uproar. Congratulations to Thomas Beattie In Spite of “The Views” Transphobia
Puzzled anger at the sudden uproar crossed Henry's face, but his wife spoke first in clipped tones.
There was a great uproar over plans to pull down the old library.
Suddenly, an uproar of shouts rang through the halls as both writers and editors alike came to see what was causing the commotion.
‘Our general is no more,’ was all he said, though loud enough for all the men to hear, and it was soon ensued by an enormously uproarious cheer from the troops.
But his quango is sure to spark uproar with its daft demands today. The Sun
First, the uproar seems confined to over-educated liberals alone.
When the Government first began to publicly promote its agenda for full privatisation in 1998 there was a rural uproar.
Immediately, everyone sprawled around in an uproar, plucking edibles and foodstuffs from cabinets and shelves.
The surprise announcement could cause an uproar in the United States.
It was the last set of recommendations that caused uproar. Times, Sunday Times
He is noted for his exuberant style and previously caused uproar by boiling lobsters live on the show. Times, Sunday Times
The Firvulag throng was now almost out of control, straining close to the platform on their side of the field and making an uproar of derisive twitters, growls, and a deep bourdon drone of humming that now reached a crescendo of maddening whole-tone intervals. The Golden Torc
The uproar that followed was both spontaneous and tremendous.
Two weeks later, having beaten the Yankees in an uproarious division series, they lost the American League Championship Series in six games to Cleveland, and the Mariners went home.
When they were all asked about the current economic climate, he said that publishing houses were in uproar, people falling on their swords left, right and center, but in fact sales were only down about 1%. Meet The Publishers « Tales from the Reading Room
Because Parliament expected an uproar, it voted a $ 42 million subsidy to keep them operating.
You're not above causing a public uproar when your temper's up. The Sun
Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus: Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
Was Archbishop's obscure phrasing and bad timing to blame for uproar? Times, Sunday Times
For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
uproarious stories
The last meeting of the Municipal Corporation saw more uproarious scenes than any other previous meeting and ended without any discussion on the agenda items.
I love seeing the smile on people's faces when they hear something they like, and the uproarious applause that usually follows.
This is another example of nimbyism also; the City would be much more likely to loosen up regulations on AADUs if neighbors didn't make an uproar about higher density. morning fizzy Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola
In the high-visibility, emotionally compelling cases such as maternity stays, an uproar resulted.
The case has caused uproar within the City of London. Times, Sunday Times
What she must have made of us lot - we got more uproarious as the evening progressed.
Despite all the balloons set free by Turkish Cypriot President Talat, and indeed to a certain extent by U.N. secretary-general's special advisor for Cyprus Alexander Downer, that there has been some very important convergences in the positions of the two sides in the talks on governance and power sharing, in reality as was demonstrated with the "uproar" in Greek Cypriot politics and media as regards the visit of the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Hurriyet Dailynews
The surprise announcement could cause an uproar in the United States.
A gang of filthy-faced, snotty-nosed ragamuffins laughed uproariously to see her screaming. Uprising
This led again to an uproarious scene in the House.
The leak caused uproar in Europe, as other leaders reacted in anger. The Sun
In the high-visibility, emotionally compelling cases such as maternity stays, an uproar resulted.
He has caused caused an uproar with his media statements that he would uncap the H-1B visa and which his staffers cannot and will not clarify when job-destruction activists protested.
Last week he caused uproar with his plans to replace council tax with a local income tax. Times, Sunday Times
This uproarious comedy is about three Brothers who are brought together by the will of their dying father.
When the bell rang signaling the start of their one-hour of free time, a large flock of girls gathered around Millie to hear one of her infamous stories, or uproarious jokes.
The announcement caused uproar in the crowd.
Her comments provoked uproar from the audience.
There was a great uproar over plans to pull down the old library.
The village went into an uproarious panic as people scattered everywhere in confusion and fear.
The England forward duly converted a ninth league goal of a productive campaign by tapping in Ashley Cole's cross with home players in uproar that the full-back had been waved on after the ball cannoned up kindly on to his arm from Rafael van der Vaart's attempted tackle. Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Chelsea | Premier League match report
Throughout the span of modern European political and cultural clash, the tension between these sets of ideas has bred conflagrant rebellion and uproarious revolution, new beginnings and salient renewals. The Brown Daily Herald RSS
Now, the day after I see uproar, furor and indignant articles across the various news sites I read.
I blushed and grabbed his hand to drag him away from the loud, uproarious crowd.
He bought shirt-pins; wore a ring on his third finger; read poetry; bribed a cheap miniature-painter to perpetrate a faint resemblance to a youthful face, with a curtain over his head, six large books in the background, and an open country in the distance (this he called his portrait); 'went on' altogether in such an uproarious manner, that the three Miss Dounces went off on small pensions, he having made the tenement in Cursitor-street too warm to contain them; and in short, comported and demeaned himself in every respect like an unmitigated old Saracen, as he was. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
The surprise announcement could cause an uproar in the United States.
The boys returned to uproarious applause to end the concert, and did so in style.
The proposals have provoked uproar. Times, Sunday Times
On his way there, probably on the street of Martín Mengod, the ancient street of the silver workers, next to the church of Santa Catalina, a great uproar caught his attention. Father Joan-Gilabert Jofré and Nuestra Señora de los locos e inocentes
The noise of talk and laughter was uproarious.
The village went into an uproarious panic as people scattered everywhere in confusion and fear.
In the case of The Closet, we're dealing with a movie that is often cute and occasionally funny, but is not especially clever or truly uproarious.
Yesterday we reported about how Miley Cyrus was causing yet another uproar, this time with an image of her pulling at her eyes in a "slanty" attempt to mock Asians. Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
Shakespeare's lyrics to music of the old English school, such as his uproarious "Let me the cannikin clink," and his dainty "Tell me where is fancy bred. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
The plan will provoke uproar in the fishing industry, which argues that a blanket ban would destroy fishermen's livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
The book caused an uproar in France.
All this at a time when the whole of Britain is in an uproar over obscene council tax rises and in a turmoil over pensions crises!
The ensuing national uproar led to punitive taxes on repatriated assets that took the fun out of that maneuver.
I know that uproars about trademarked words are old hat, but can a supposedly ethical organisation really trademark the term ‘indigenous’?
One uproarious jape later, they had a story that, with a little embellishment, would keep them in drink for months, and possibly even form the basis of their next novel.
Thus it was that Bruce missed his wontedly uproarious welcome as he cantered, at sunset one July day, into a smashed farmstead where his friends, the "Here-We-Comes," were bivouacked for the night. Bruce
But inside, my laugh was so uproarious that it looked as if I was going to be sick. GYPSY MASALA
Suddenly the public was in an uproar, and the producers in Hollywood took up their cause.
It is impossible to imagine the uproar that such peremptory and contemptuous words from him would provoke.
The first toilets manufactured to this lower standard caused uproar among builders and homeowners alike because the toilets did not flush solids well, requiring multiple flushes and negating any water savings.
It caused uproar at the time, but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile, puffing on that metaphorical cigar.
The secretive world of wild mushrooms is in uproar after the publication of an online map disclosing the best spots for finding fungi. Times, Sunday Times
When I admitted the truth, the Collie laughed uproariously for what I thought was an unnecessarily long time, then cast aspersions on my parents.
The word pandemonium itself means a wild uproar, but as the word is capitalized, its meaning is instead directed at the region associated in Milton's Paradise Lost, where Pandemonium is the capital of Hell.
Some rural counties and small towns have developed a satellitic relationship to the larger centers of population, and even around others that are distant from urban uproar, sprawl is beginning to find a congenial form for itself in vacation colonies of "second homes" in scenic places whose remoteness, together with a smaller and more settled population of Americans, used to be their staunch protection. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
Last week he caused uproar with his plans to replace council tax with a local income tax. Times, Sunday Times
The Basingstoke firm is putting things right after the 200 million new grandstand caused uproar when many racegoers could not see the action. The Sun
In the late 1990s, the issue of potential mass sales of Canadian water to the U.S. caused an uproar.
Amid the uproar that followed, a political trap was sprung.
Her simple answer headed an uproar and a flurry of activity.
He poured forth a perfect uproar of liquid melody, punctuated with such hurroos and whoops of delight that he made me wonder if his lady love would like such college-song methods of serenading.
Those whacky gardening folk and their uproarious naming schemes!
Imagine the uproar if we had a panda bear in a glass cage to provoke while we did our shopping! The Sun
Her comments caused uproar and embarrassed the Government. The Sun
The trial proceeded amid uproar.
And, above all this lifeful uproar of the animal creation, a loud laugh rang out. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Initially, there will be uproar with protests and dire warnings of disaster. The Sun
Or, perhaps they felt some guilt for the uproar that they had created in the first place.
He is noted for his exuberant style and previously caused uproar by boiling lobsters live on the show. Times, Sunday Times
The uproarious bun throwing and surreptitious chatting up of 18th century public spaces gave way to the hushed cathedral of the 19th century concert hall.
In almost any other walk of life, these restrictions on individual freedom would cause a national uproar. Times, Sunday Times
The ancient Saxons celebrated the return of spring with an uproarious festival commemorating their goddess of offspring and of springtime, Eastre.
Vincent Canby in The New York Times wrote, “The intentions of McCabe and Mrs. Miller are not only serious, they are meddlesomely imposed on the film by tired symbolism… [that] keep[s] spoiling the fun of what might have been an uproarious frontier fable.” STAR
Suddenly her head went back, her mouth opened in a long, agonized wail, and became peal after peal of uproarious laughter. THE THORN BIRDS
Accounts of this violence, made worse by exaggeration, created a national uproar.
If they fought or summoned help from a rescue team based in Malta, it would cause uproar. Times, Sunday Times
The uproar again started when the House reassembled.
There was an uproar in the audience while everyone tried to scream louder than the person next to him or her.
With that he placidly resumed his walk, and was soon seated in the stern-sheets of a whaleboat manned by uproarious Kanakas, himself daintily perched out of the way of the least maculation, giving his commands in an unobtrusive, dinner-table tone of voice, and sweeping neatly enough alongside the schooner. The Wrecker
The classroom was in an uproar.
Speculation that the inter-urban franchise has been handed to a controversial rail operator has caused uproar in the industry.
The Basingstoke firm is putting things right after the 200 million new grandstand caused uproar when many racegoers could not see the action. The Sun
On stage, employees were singing and performing comedy sketches while their colleagues in the audience wolfed down dim sum and applauded uproariously.
It was just as well that "Dora" Eweword had been too chopfallen to come in, for we found the place in what grandma termed "a uproar. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
Still, that must be better than causing an uproar by taking the landed gentry by surprise?
Workers at Swindon Pressings caused such an uproar at plans to scrap its annual Christmas trees that the company will now be putting them up.
Instead, it set off an uproar among religious activists, including many who normally agree on little.
She wasn't good enough, quite frankly, but she was one of the active whatsits, there were other pressures behind her, and she caused an uproar.
He was utterly perplexed with the uproar and romage. A Rough Shaking
remained calm throughout the uproar
It caused an uproar, as I thought it would, but many people realized later that it was the right thing to do.
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.
The surprise announcement could cause an uproar in the United States.
The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom, and the end result is an outstanding and frequently uproarious telling of the Factory Records tale.
However a lot of this uproar is about the Mayor grandstanding, making an example of some dumb celebrity, while gangs and organized crime [and plenty of them] freely roam NYC with illegal handguns. More on Plaxico and Christmas
This uproarious comedy about the questionable normalcy of a 1950s nuclear family under inspection by one of Eisenhower's agents only gets better the more it indulges its own silly irreverence.
If life were like the movies, every joke you tell would be met with uproarious laughter.
We asked star Dennis Franz how the show was able to overcome the early uproar.
Can any judge throw those statements out knowing what the uproar would be?
The whole hall was in uproar after the announcement.
He laughs - uproariously, and poshly. Times, Sunday Times
But it ended in uproar after the match official sent one off and was promptly felled by a blow from the disgraced player's father, also a referee. Great Sporting Failures
He comments on being weighed down ‘with the burdens of pastoral care’ and ‘great tumultuous uproars in secular affairs’.
Before the afternoon was out, a class of tinies had a new and uproarious catchphrase.
Dr. Leaky started much of the uproar when he found his famous missing link, Lucy.
You well know how these kinds of issues can almost get a life of their own, in terms of creating an uproar.
Long about the time of year we call November, Athens exploded in an uproarious, joyous, naughty celebration - the Great Dionysia, or Festival of Dionysos.
They did every convention, from pratfalls to bad catch phrases to a live audience that laughed uproariously at the stupidest jokes - and were then accentuated by a laugh track.
– He was unceremoniously shooed from the bar, to the uproar of all, save the two men at the table nearest where he’d been hiding. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Mnkyking’s Review Forum
Now, the day after I see uproar, furor and indignant articles across the various news sites I read.
But it ended in uproar after the match official sent one off and was promptly felled by a blow from the disgraced player's father, also a referee. Great Sporting Failures
Eventually I made it back to the bosom of my extended family, and related my story, expecting uproarious laughter.
Buncan saw the fox and caracal laugh uproariously but hardly spared a glance in their direction. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
Nick Clegg knows that he will look terrible and his party will be in uproar if he dishonours the pledges he made in opposition. The fierce battle behind the scenes for the coalition's soul
Certainly, a drawn-out international uproar should not be necessary every time.
My seats were in the right field bleachers, notoriously the most profane, obnoxious and uproarious section in Yankee Stadium, if not in all of baseball.
The secretive world of wild mushrooms is in uproar after the publication of an online map disclosing the best spots for finding fungi. Times, Sunday Times
They burst into uproarious laughter.
Perhaps she's so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves. ' The Beetle
But, you know, the minute that they said that there was obviously uproar in Detroit, because the car companies have been very, very resistant to having anything with the label bankruptcy on it even if it is an orderly bankruptcy. CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2008
The video sparked uproar when it was released on Monday. Times, Sunday Times
That contrasted with uproarious cheers at the Gibraltar pub in Buenos Aires, where a crowd of about 50 British expatriates applauded wildly.
Leave it to them to balance the uproariously bizarre with the mentally disturbed to create a wonderfully schizoid DVD package.
The courtroom was in an uproar.
After the first round of voting for the speaker resulted in a tied vote, the house descended into uproar.
Thomas Nast , whose antislavery political cartoons propelled him to notoriety in the 19th century, has ignited another uproar: whether his anti-Irish and -Catholic drawings should disqualify him from the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Cartoonist Draws Ire of N.J. Irish
There was uproar over the tax increases.
The uproar led to the establishment of bioethics committees to oversee research.
This started an uproar of public debate, so the reporters went after Joshua again.
Some will claim the latest uproar vindicates their forebodings.
His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules. Tanglewood Tales
But the crowd was getting more and more uproarious.
I sallied forth to see the cause of the uproar, and found our host engaged in single combat with a drawn sword -- stick that sparkled blue and bright in the moonbeam, his antagonist being a strong porker that he had taken for a town guard, and had hemmed into a corner formed by the stair and the garden wall, which, on being pressed, made a dash between his spindleshanks, and fairly capsized him into my arms. Tom Cringle's Log
Replacing the tabernacle with an archbishop's throne in Armagh cathedral caused uproar among parishioners two years ago.
It's a comedy rule, it seems, that the louder you can say a line or caterwaul in reaction to some hoary bit of high jinks, the more uproarious the moment becomes. Theater review: 'Fox on the Fairway' at Signature Theatre
Whereupon the queen called the seneschal and asked him who bawled so loud, and what was the occasion of the uproar. The Decameron, Volume II
All of the tea paty uproar is solely racial related. Key senator unveils long-awaited health-care proposal
Given the uproar at that time, Mr. Stimson had to resign as was described in the WSJ at cully-stimson-resigns . The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney
That isn't the only uproar - a fan "reBELLYon" was sparked when her label demanded she remove "uncommercially fat" shots of her stomach from the video for Undefined
Actioneer one make a price, the spot an in an uproar, a few minutes calm, nobody should be patted, this auction is tasted stream pat.
The city was in an uproar and the god Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the god in the council, ‘The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel.’
The humor ranges from sophomorically vulgar and ingeniously witty to uproariously racist and mischievously violent, but always ruthlessly dark. Flixnjoystix.com! » 2008 » July
The city that pioneered free public libraries is facing uproar over plans to close one of its reading rooms.
I honestly couldn't have told you how long I stood there in the crowd, listening to him play, but when the song finally ended, I broke into uproarious applause along with the others.
wich is down 'Endon wy," is no longer a spree for him, however uproarious the "shindy," and however ready his "gal" may be to sit on his knee and "change 'ats" to the accompaniment of cornet and concertina. The History of "Punch"
The lower-topsail, its sheets parted by the fall of the crojack-yard, was tearing out of the bolt-ropes and ribboning away to leeward and making such an uproar that they might well expect its yard to carry away. CHAPTER XLVI
Kenilworth is in an uproar over rumors concerning a proposed condo development -- with interesting implications for Plainfield's Senior Center condos. Will Plainfield's Senior Center condos sell?
A gorgeous magic performance did spot for Zhou Jielun has laughed uproariously fully.
I also laughed uproariously when two of the Jackasses, dressed in marching band uniforms, climbed into a pen with a very aggressive ram, under the pretense of trying to sooth the savage beast with music. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Jackass 3D
In the ensuing uproar -- fueled by people who were not comparably scandalized when George W. Bush was sulfurously vilified -- her opponent raised nearly $2 million and her lead shrank from 13 points to her winning margin of 3. RealClearPolitics - Homepage
Financial markets were in uproar after the crash of the rouble.
The town is in uproar over the dispute.
There is the inevitable clop-clop of a horse, the rumble of a motorised omnibus, the further ambient uproar of the great city's life.
This uproarious comedy is about three Brothers who are brought together by the will of their dying father.
The shenanigans provoked uproar as the nation began to lose patience with the third party 's dithering backbenchers in the face of an economic crisis. The Sun
Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right.
By the end you’ll be guessing how far away the clumsy attendee is by the Doppler effect caused by the uproar. The New York Cork Report
The curses of the camel-drivers beating the animals; the cries of the hawkers who sold amulets against leprosy and the evil eye; the psalmody of the monks reciting verses of the Bible; the shrieking of the women who were prophesying; the shouting of the beggars singing old songs of the harem; the bleating of sheep; the braying of asses; the sailors calling tardy passengers; all these confused noises caused a deafening uproar, over which dominated the strident voices of the little naked negro boys, running about everywhere selling fresh dates. Thais
Instead, it set off an uproar among religious activists, including many who normally agree on little.

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