(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).
Hullabaloo
Definition:
(n.) A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Along the way, they will enjoy a vegetarian barbecue or two in the evenings, as well as something called a Hullabaloo Quire (songs of protest and celebration from around the world).
(2) Immediately a hullabaloo followed, with critics accused of being ungrateful by those in favour of what the government offered.
(3) What we have actually seen during this parliament is a government successfully making itself irrelevant while creating a huge, empty hullabaloo over how it's doing the opposite.
(4) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(5) But amid all the hullabaloo, it is worth remembering that for millions of employees, nothing is changing.
(6) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
(7) We have had a hullabaloo over a new 10% tax threshold and abolishing a new 50p one .
(8) Another library that opened to great hullabaloo is the Idea Store in Whitechapel, designed by David Adjaye and operated by Tower Hamlets.
(9) That hullabaloo in Belo Horizonte last night knocked the earth clean off its axis, but the space-time continuum appears to have remained in one piece, just about, and so kick off is at: 5pm at the Arena de São Paulo , 5pm in Buenos Aires, 10pm in Amsterdam, 9pm in London.
(10) Leading to this Friday’s hullabaloo was a YouTube round-the-world event – which ends on Thursday night – where the new toys were unboxed live in 15 different cities over an 18-hour span.
(11) Hanging signs of Lombard Street, the City Lombard Street, amid the hullabaloo of the City, is one of the few places in London where 17th- and 18th-century-style shop signs survive in all their gilt glory, jutting from buildings on wrought-iron brackets, creaking and groaning in the wind.
(12) With this hullabaloo, you have to wonder if Chuck hasn't felt rather let down by his bandmates over the years.
(13) AS far as I can gather, despite the annual hullabaloo over the team's clobber, only team in more than a century of Cup finals has worn an even slightly interesting suit (Liverpool's white ensemble, of course).
(14) Not that the Mayans are to blame for the hullabaloo over 21 December 2012.
(15) I listened in vain for Blackie's name to be called, and then to all the hullabaloo over a certain Jack Russell terrier named Uggie . "
(16) Outside the fashion shows is the hullabaloo frenzy – photographers go crazy and everyone's trying to get pictures for their blog or website.