(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).
Kerfuffle
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
(2) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
(3) 2.29pm GMT Bank of England plan leave economists feeling QEesy In the UK, there is something of a kerfuffle after the Bank of England announced that it will transfer tens of billions pounds accrued through its quantitative easing programme back to the UK Treasury.
(4) Through the window she gazes out at a great kerfuffle of cameras and lights as a One Show presenter is filmed abseiling off the roof.
(5) "This kerfuffle is an ad feminam attack from the boys and, of course, the odd girl, but mainly it's a boyzones attack.
(6) The Selftrade letters have caused a kerfuffle, particularly as most of the recipients aren't oligarchs and millionaires but ordinary small investors with perhaps a few thousand pounds in an Isa.
(7) As if to show that this stage is not merely a 100km+ warm-up to a frenetic sprint, a minor kerfuffle in the peloton results in two riders hitting the road.
(8) The committee has taken a quick turn round the course in the wake of the Mid Staffs hospital kerfuffle – and covers ground that colleague MPs have already trodden, for example in the health committee .
(9) Read more Meanwhile, Trump’s tweets have provided a daily source of jaw-dropping amusement for a global audience, a phenomenon that reached a peak with the kerfuffle over “covfefe”, the apparently mistyped word in an incomplete tweet that the president posted after midnight on Wednesday.
(10) The recent kerfuffle provoked by the film of the off-duty fireman chucking the alleged fair dodger off the train in Scotland has opened an interesting debate about this issue.
(11) He's in there, as you might imagine, kerfuffling around with some beverages, jugs and glasses all lined up on his boardroom table like a middle-management conference at the South Mimms Novotel.
(12) Pannun and Whittington’s alliance may cause a public kerfuffle in New York or Washington as they try to get the lawsuit papers served on Modi.
(13) Also responsible for two of the broadcaster’s biggest hits of 2014, The Jump and The Island with Bear Grylls (not without a rumpus of its own), Humphreys can expect another kerfuffle with Sex in Class, in which Belgian sex therapist Goedele Liekens takes her campaign to establish a GCSE in sex education into the homes and schools of Britain.
(14) Marr's amusement turned to surprise when Morrissey joined in the kerfuffle, issuing a statement supporting his ex-bandmate 's tweet about Cameron.
(15) There was a minor kerfuffle a few weeks ago when the Daily Mail website overtook the New York Times to become the most popular news site in the world .
(16) Therefore, Kevin Rudd could win by a slim majority and all the leadership kerfuffle would end.
(17) As you may have noticed, there was a bit of a kerfuffle last week involving this newspaper, the House of Commons, the oil-trading company Trafigura , law firm Carter-Ruck, Private Eye, toxic waste, Twitter, and a mysterious alien entity known as a "super-injunction".
(18) 27 min: Sneijder cops a booking do, for his part in the kerfuffle that followed the high kick.
(19) When you look at Paris as an expression of global will, a final piece of evidence for business about where the world is heading, a turbo-charge for investment decisions that are already starting, then the whole kerfuffle about the 1.5C target also makes sense.
(20) This kerfuffle could have been avoided if the parties involved would have done more to control their imaginations".