How to Use hue and cry in a Sentence

hue and cry

noun

• There was a hue and cry in opposition to the film.
• There was, of course, the hue and cry that the league should push things back.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2020
• And the hue and cry has largely been over what a disservice the short is to viewers.
  — Michael Cavna, ajc, 30 Nov. 2017
• The Democrats would raise a hue and cry about changing the Senate rules in the middle of the game.
  — John Yoo, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
• There was a lot of hue and cry over that process, with some Republicans crying foul, but the process worked.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Apr. 2021
• The interview will set off a hue and cry from the royal family and the British tabloids.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2021
• Nurses have experienced burnout for decades, yet there hasn’t been the same intense hue and cry for them as there is for physicians.
  — Timothy J. Hoff, STAT, 21 June 2018
• Black actresses give voice this winter to three gifted singers who raised a soul-stirring hue and cry destined to resound through the ages.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2021
• Not everyone raising the hue and cry about illiberalism has exactly this same list in mind.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• The public hue and cry to change Cleveland’s outfield apparently did not register with the front office.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2022
• The hue and cry around a repeat drunken driver killing a police officer will likely mean James, if convicted, will spend a long time in prison.
  — Keith Schubert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2019
• Writings from the time also raise a hue and cry about the shockingly green sky in another Faculty Painting.
  — Suhita Shirodkar, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
• Even as the hue and cry on the internet are loud, experts suspect the switch is limited to a tiny section of privacy-conscious users and amplified on their groups.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 12 Jan. 2021
• Once the Supreme Court invalidates the order, the usual hue and cry about the court being a tool of conservatives will begin.
  — WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• Suddenly, Republicans are raising a hue and cry about getting serious about mental health.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 May 2022
• The controversial sentence was part of a long answer setting out the administration’s strategy on ventilators that has, despite all the hue and cry, clearly worked.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Apr. 2020
• The hue and cry over this benighted movement, in which institutions of higher learning are turning their backs on their fundamental mission, will likely not be enough to stop the forces operating under the cover of budgetary necessity.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Astros’ competition raised a great hue and cry against this practice, especially the New York Yankees who played them during the 2019 playoffs.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• The hue and cry in Broncos Country will be to activate Lock, who hasn’t been seen on the field in anything resembling a game situation since the ballyhooed draft pick sprained the thumb on his throwing hand in August.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
• Produced in November 2020, before the hue and cry over blockchain’s environmental impact hit the mainstream, the artwork uses the NFT format to present how carbon markets could be brought on-chain.
  — Charlotte Kent, Wired, 17 Feb. 2022