(n.) Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Actinic commotion at the surface of the body is often massive in degree and extent and may be expected to exert a deleterious autoimmune impact on the essential elastic tissues of the arterial system.
(2) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
(3) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
(4) In the commotion that followed Xiros's escape, Alexandros Giotopoulos, the French-born academic believed to have founded the gang, and Dimitris Koufondinas, its chief hitman, have declared, in letters written from prison, that "17 November is dead".
(5) That was where Tree was dancing in the early hours of 28 June 1969, when he heard and saw a commotion through the archway.
(6) When Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a " selfie " on her smartphone last week, like millions of people do every day, she doubtless had little idea of the commotion that would ensue.
(7) My neighbours (poor things) do not listen to The Archers or they would have known that the commotion they heard was my response to evidence being given by Kirsty Miller at the trial of Helen Titchener.
(8) If they had, there would have been too much commotion.
(9) The incident does not bode well – even if this is not the first time a Golden Dawn MP has caused commotion in the House.
(10) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
(11) But Victoria Square, named after Britain’s long-reigning monarch, has also come to represent something else: a fear of the chaos and commotion that the stranded migrants have brought with them.
(12) Someone was angry enough to drive a cement mixer into the gates of the country's parliament yesterday, but there was much more commotion earlier this month when Tony Blair – an ex-prime minister of a foreign country – came to town .
(13) That was the poachers’ luck.” In the commotion and darkness, the villains made their escape.
(14) Look, Richard says, they never set out to cause a commotion.
(15) In patients with brain commotion in the first week after trauma only 24-hours EEG revealed changes.
(16) Suzy Mitchell, 26, said she heard the commotion from her bedroom at the back of an apartment block opposite the venue: “Everyone was running away in big crowds.” Police were alerted to the explosion at 10.33pm.
(17) According to ABC News , the suicidal woman was on the edge of a balcony and threatened to jump when the three men heard the commotion and rushed into the building to rescue her.
(18) When gay radiologist Jorg Thieme had the temerity to kiss his male partner there, a scandalised Canary Wharf security guard intervened to prevent "a commotion".
(19) Some sudden movement attracted her attention, a commotion, and she could see Lawrence on the ground, a group of men surrounding him and kicking, holding him down, she remembers.
(20) Cool-headed, as if oblivious to the commotion around her, she was earnestly engaged in formulating a policy phrase that would distinguish government borrowing (for a fiscal stimulus to get us out of the financial crisis) from personal borrowing (of the sort which got us into it).
Hubbub
Definition:
(v. i.) A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.
Example Sentences:
(1) When 12pm came, the hubbub in the cavernous King’s Cross station subsided.
(2) "I couldn't wake up," he says by way of apology, ordering tea and orange juice, his soft Dublin accent barely audible above the hotel-bar hubbub.
(3) At Lido beach each Friday there is a festival mood and constant hubbub as thousands of young people gather, kicking a football, performing gymnastics or simply bracing in the sea and letting the surf wash over them.
(4) Being amid the madness and hubbub of E3, seeing the people queueing for two hours just to get a glimpse of some cult Japanese RPG – it’s still exciting, it’s still a rush.
(5) Hubbub , an online delivery service for local independent shops in London, was set up just over a year ago by Marisa Leaf, a former barrister with a pretty gung-ho dislike for Tesco.
(6) We are the Yelp and the WebMD of cannabis,” Wansolich said, while taking in the hubbub outside Cannabis City.
(7) Three storeys above the hubbub of Chelsea – where a few days earlier people had queued round the block to vote for Barack Obama – even the perpetual horns of taxi cabs seem muted, and the only human voices heard are the occasional shouts from workmen.
(8) This helped raise the atmosphere as the hubbub normally heard at a high-end game now filled the stadium.
(9) Night was falling and a hubbub surrounded the scene of the accident.
(10) Those stands were awash with sunlight and yellow clobber as the crowd generated a cheery hubbub aimed at helping their team to climb out of its predicament.
(11) And it’s all just a 10-minute stroll from the Torre del Oro and the hubbub of the cathedral area.
(12) We knew there would be a hubbub but we didn't know that it would be so lengthy.
(13) Franz Beckenbauer and Pelé and all these people were there, and a lot of hubbub.
(14) The murky past and concrete aesthetic quickly dissolve into a sunny, crystal blue present, however, as I watch athletic pros showing off their impressive butterfly technique in the main pool and listen to the hubbub of families and teenagers in the two adjacent kids’ pools.
(15) Doubles from £90 to £130 B&B Casa Mosquito, Ipanema This late 1940s colonial house nestled high up the mountain between Ipanema and Copacabana offers a relaxing and stylish retreat away from the tourist hubbub.
(16) Briers's television work in the mid-to-late 1980s was concentrated on two hit series: Ever Decreasing Circles, again written by Esmonde and Larbey for the BBC , in which he played Martin Bryce, a well-organised fusspot obsessed with law and order; and All in Good Faith, written by John Kane for Thames TV, and produced by Davies, in which he excelled as the Rev Philip Lambe, a caring vicar in a wealthy rural parish, pining for the inner-city hubbub.
(17) After the hubbub of touring the last record subsided, they relocated from New York to Los Angeles — Catherine moving west first, and Allison arriving shortly afterwards following a fair amount of convincing.
(18) Photograph: Tom Jenkins "It's the greatest sense of relief," McCoy said, finally dismounted and at the centre of a hubbub that lasted all through the next race and up to the off-time of the one after that.
(19) More recently we've learned that some patients would appreciate more quiet time away from the hubbub of the wards, while others feel there are too few activities to help pass the time.
(20) Yet Ore has created settings for Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina and Samutsevich that fly free from the hubbub of voices with the same steely resolution as the statements delivered to a Russian courtroom.