(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.
Uproar
Definition:
(n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
(v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.
(v. i.) To make an uproar.
Example Sentences:
(1) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(2) Bayern’s game in Saudi Arabia also coincided with the uproar over the flogging in the country of activist and blogger Raif Badawi .
(3) Imagine the uproar if a Labour chancellor had planned to borrow another £150bn to invest in jobs, infrastructure, training, childcare and house-building.
(4) In addition to new jobs, the £50m will fund significant investment in training and new systems to improve customer service.” Centrica and other big energy companies are under political and regulatory pressure over their treatment of UK energy customers, reflecting public uproar over the cost of household bills.
(5) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
(6) Hitler had become chancellor of Germany just 10 days earlier, and the vote provoked uproar.
(7) Whereas the founding fathers of democratic South Africa preached non-racialism, Malema has caused uproar with his singing of the protest song Shoot the Boer‚ a reference to Afrikaner farmers.
(8) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
(9) The incident sparked uproar, but the circumstances which led the schoolgirls to trek outside at night are not unusual in India .
(10) Burke and the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, were ejected from parliament during the subsequent uproar over the speaker’s handling of the matter.
(11) Local media said the crash revived memories of an accident in 2004, when a CH-53 helicopter from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma crashed into a nearby university building, triggering a huge anti-base uproar although there were no civilian injuries and the crew survived.
(12) The judge who has allowed a financier to bring a secret libel suit against his own sister-in-law defended his decision to make all the parties anonymous on Wednesday, in the wake of the uproar over superinjunctions and the outing of footballer Ryan Giggs in defiance of court orders.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahmed Mohamed wants to move schools after arrest for homemade clock A social media uproar ensued, with people questioning whether Ahmed would have been arrested had he not been Muslim.
(14) Spicer linked those comments to the rightwing uproar over a recent New York production of Julius Caesar in which the Roman leader was dressed to resemble Trump, and, as in every production since 1599, assassinated.
(15) If the budget does not bring about any further funding increase, there would be uproar.” The junior doctor and GP trainee Dr Jeeves Wijesuriya said the demonstration was a chance for the government to plot a new course for the NHS.
(16) That provoked uproar in the press room and was eventually rescinded.
(17) Lost in the uproar caused in some circles by the condemnation of Israeli settlements embodied in Kerry’s speech and in UN security council resolution 2334 is the fact that, in line with previous US policies on Palestine, both ignore basic rights of the Palestinian people, and the requirements of international law, of justice and of equity.
(18) In the ensuing political uproar, Mrs Thatcher was unable to deny that she had been well aware of the way her son stood to gain from her conflict of interest.
(19) Police arrested 31 as they clashed with protesters in another night of gunfire, teargas and chaos in Ferguson 10 days after the shooting of an unarmed teenager ignited an uproar over race in America.
(20) Amid the uproar of his emerging social activism, Kaepernick is still trying to win a job with the 49ers less than four years after leading them to the Super Bowl.