How to Use clamor in a Sentence

clamor

1 of 2 noun

• A clamor outside woke them in the night.
• There is growing clamor for reform.
• By the mid-1960s, the Catholic Church could no longer ignore the clamor.
  — John Loughery, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• The clamor for medicine has even spilled out of the mainland.
  — Tiffany May, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• But he’s seen nothing like the clamor for guns the past week.
  — oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2022
• But where does this leave us now, amid the clamor of voices, left and right?
  — Dwight Lindley Iii, National Review, 16 May 2021
• The clamor for Congress to step in has only grown since then.
  — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• Not the loudest clamor one has ever heard on a golf course.
  — Steve Dimeglio, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2021
• Those threats, in turn, are spurring a clamor for PCR testing, rapid tests and at-home kits.
  — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2021
• But the clamor around The Idol might not have been exactly what Levinson had in mind.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2023
• The mainstream and left-of-center media dismissed the clamor as a lot of fuss over nothing.
  — Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• Garoppolo has to be hearing all the clamor for Lance to get the job, but the smiling vet just keeps smiling.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2021
• The only scene in the film that takes place inside the walls of Auschwitz sees the camera linger on the actor’s face, in close-up, as the clamor of death is heard all around him.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
• Rashford had not started the U.S.A. match, but there wasn’t a loud clamor for him to be included.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
• The more confusing the clamor, the more adrenaline to enjoy.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
• It's known as a cafe and a shisha lounge, in addition to serving a full food menu, and provides welcome respite amid the clamor of the bazaar.
  — Jake Emen, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Nov. 2023
• Between their masks and the clamor in the room, however, attendants can be hard to hear.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
• But as weeks turned into months without a visit to the border by Harris, the clamor grew.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 23 June 2021
• The home crowd — peppered with Hilltopper faithful — cut loose with the kind of clamor that comes when the end of a nine-game nightmare is in sight.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Dec. 2022
• Up here, less than 10 stories above 44th Street, the clamor of an opening night on Broadway drifts away.
  — Michael Appler, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
• Since then, the clamor from actors has been relentless.
  — John Koblin, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• But if fighting resumes, Omer and the remaining hostages will slip back into the clamor of war.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• As the clamor by British lawmakers grew louder, Mr. Abramovich put the club on the market and said the proceeds would go to charity.
  — Max Colchester and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Here, far removed from the clamor and frenzy of the racetrack, a man shows his son the ropes while the boy’s mother looks lovingly on from the sidelines.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• High above the clamor of Monterosso’s village life, Casa di Andrea oozes with charm and garden views.
  — Kasia Dietz, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023
• Dining on the early side or snaring one of the four tables out front are the only alternatives to the clamor as the night thrums on.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
• Due to the reverence in which Lindbergh was held and the horrific details of the case, a clamor arose for a verdict of guilt with a sentence for death.
  — WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• In a library, a music store, a consignment shop and in homes across the area, people peered outside for clues to describe the clamor.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 27 June 2021
• All the same, nothing could quite prepare her for the overwhelming clamor of the Met red carpet itself.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 3 May 2022
• Now that the clamor of humans had arrived, the muteness of the earth became more significant.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022

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clamor

2 of 2 verb

• The video got millions of views as fans clamored to see the scene.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
• Word spread, and friends and neighbors clamored for her goods.
  — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• With results like that, the union still clamors for more power.
  — Matt Paprocki, National Review, 16 Apr. 2023
• Arceus was new ground for the franchise: the first open-world game in the series, something for which fans had long clamored.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
• About how people with a platform like his, even in sports, have to help clamor for change.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• Customers also clamor for the start of éclair and cream puff season.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• In one game, carts of live pigs were thrown from the top of the hill, leaving the townspeople below clamoring to catch the meat.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• Every exhibitor clamored to be next to the big rifles because that’s where the crowds were.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• When the wind blows straight west and the tide rolls in, fish, shrimp, crab and other sea life clamor to the water’s surface for oxygen.
  — Jessica Fender, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Hopkin: That prompts the babies to start clamoring for food.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
• Does anyone need to clamor to go somewhere Wallen has been?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• Here, a miniature trellis adds even more growing spots, with lush vines that clamor up around the door.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Mar. 2023
• Forty fans clamor at the door outside; the girls jockey for position around the table.
  — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
• Many of those fans turned up early to clamor for the best spots for the general admission show.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Nov. 2021
• Tens of thousands of people still took to the street to clamor for his resignation.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2020
• The rest of the Methuen girls’ soccer players followed, sprinting off the bench and from all corners of the field to clamor around their goalkeeper.
  — Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• Fans clamored for Barbie to have a boyfriend, so Ken (named for Handler’s son) was introduced in 1961.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 July 2023
• And when news of the show’s closure struck, fans clamored to buy tickets to the rest of its run – the closing date was even pushed several weeks to meet fan demand.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023
• Still, the vaccines have been in short supply as gay and bisexual men clamor for shots.
  — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 26 July 2022
• No wonder the media clamored to interview her in her nineties.
  — Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• With bacon, chicken, ranch, and pasta baked in one dish, guests will clamor for seconds.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2023
• There's also been a flurry of media request, phone calls for lessons and people clamoring for merch from the club.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• This means everybody in town will clamor to a shot — including the boys’ teacher.
  — oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2021
• Customers are likely to clamor for more choices, and shortages will force them to take second best.
  — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• For as long as there have been sports in Australia, women have clamored to play and participate.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Star Trek fans who finished season 2 of Discovery and are clamoring to see more of Capt.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 15 May 2020
• As workers begin to ration out the soup in various bowls, some children clamored at the gates amid shouts and childish cheers.
  — NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024
• When something—a movie franchise, a band, a YA trilogy—is beloved, fans always clamor for more.
  — Swapna Krishna, Wired, 4 Aug. 2021
• The best trunk-or-treat ideas are on theme, whimsical, and offer plenty of irresistible sweets kids will clamor for.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 31 July 2023
• Yet as customers clamored for the cookie, scouts and their parents learned there was no chance of increasing supply by the end of the cookie season in April.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024