as in roar
a violent shouting
the hue and cry in the classroom when someone let loose a snake
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Recent Examples of hue and cry
And for all the hue and cry over gentrification, the fact is gentrifying neighborhoods bring in families with higher incomes to support the businesses that serve all residents.
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Edward Poteat,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
Neither faced the hue and cry that enveloped Feinstein.
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Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2024
So the Establishment world that reads and writes has also joined the hue and cry.
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Liz Smith,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2024
Raising a hue and cry—digitally Perhaps the biggest innovation in the 6 January investigations was nothing that law enforcement itself did, but rather the general public’s response.
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IEEE Spectrum,
6 Jan. 2023
See All Example Sentences for hue and cry
Edward Poteat,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
Neither faced the hue and cry that enveloped Feinstein.
—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2024
So the Establishment world that reads and writes has also joined the hue and cry.
—
Liz Smith,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2024
Raising a hue and cry—digitally Perhaps the biggest innovation in the 6 January investigations was nothing that law enforcement itself did, but rather the general public’s response.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
6 Jan. 2023
See All Example Sentences for hue and cry
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hue and cry
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Gratitude on a stage has rarely seemed more palpable than in Williams basking in the glow of the arena roar; here is someone who, in the spirit of Dylan and the actual words of Doe, has been beyond and back.
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Video taken from Vestavia Hills, a community in central Alabama, showed brown floodwater inundating local streets amid the roar of rain.
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Top Wall Street analysts help investors look past near-term noise and pick attractive stocks with solid long-term growth potential.
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If there’s anyone down there still alive, make noise or scream.
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
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