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• Since word of semaglutide’s slimming effects hit the diet-culture rialto, people have been clamoring for it.2025 January 13, Virginia Heffernan, “The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell. Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut…. From the entry rialto
• For all its clamor and its ritualized, channeled aggression, Warped is pretty wholesome.2012 July 22, Jon Pareles, “Thundering Mosh Pits and All the Free Hugs a Teenager Would Want”, in The New York Times. From the entry body-paint
• Rayney,” the reporters clamored, and hands shot up. ¶ Charlotte called on the reporter from the L.A.2007, Barbara Seranella, Deadman's Switch, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, pages 33–4. From the entry call on
• In that respect the popular clamor for "smashing" the rebels was based on sound if oversanguine instinct.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 335. From the entry oversanguine
• The world will be at our doors clamoring for cotton and we can command our own price.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XI, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry acquisitiveness
• "Malec" shippers will clamor for installments to come.2019, The Red Scrolls of Magic review, Kirkus Reviews, 15 February 2019, page 143. From the entry Malec
• Santa Cruz, in the east, clamors for autonomy.2007 September 18, Simon Romero, “A Radical Gives Bolivia Some Stability”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021. From the entry La Paz
• This whole gay marriage clamor is really about spousal and other benefits that this welfare state provider has made so enticing.2006, Freddie L. Sirmans, Can the US Survive Doomsday, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry gravy train
• The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons. From the entry stridulation
• Where the horrible clamor had merely set my nerves ajangle, it had plainly lacerated her like some evil bullwhip.1979, William Styron, chapter 15, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Random House, page 462. From the entry ajangle
• These tortured phrases, e.g. flag to clamor instead of signal to noise, are the results of paraphrasing tools used to escape plagiarism detection.2024 February 2, Martel, Eléna; Lentschat, Martin; Labbé, Cyril, “Detection of tortured phrases in scientific literature”, in arXiv, →DOI. From the entry tortured phrase
• Femslashers follow onscreen lesbian couples alongside their subtextual favorites and have often clamored for one of the latter characters to “come out” on television.2013, Julie Levin Russo, “Textual orientation: Queer female fandom online”, in Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin, editors…. From the entry femslasher
• The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere.2002 October 17, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry in the pink
• State governors clamor for state control.1992, Environmental Law Update, page 389. From the entry superminority
• They were drunk on tiswin they'd brewed and there had been shooting in the night two nights running and an incessant clamor for whiskey.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter XVI, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC. From the entry tiswin
• Clumps of kids clamor to compete at practically all the booths fashioned from stacked Prairie Farms bottle carriers and stringsful of balloons.1978 July 16, Ruth Heckathorn, “Face painting favorite of kids”, in Decatur Sunday Herald and Review, volume 48, Decatur, Ill., page 3. From the entry stringful
• The fact, however, that astonishment has been expressed at the clamor described, warrants a review of incidents which precipitated the events referred to.1905 April 15, J. W. Midgley, “Private Cars. Why Private Car Lines were Overlooked—Thorough Investigation of Abuses Authorized. Circular…. From the entry warrant
• Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax.2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press…. From the entry futurist
• As a result, the media and the public were clamoring for change, supporting the efforts of leading neoclassicals like Milton Friedman to overthrow their Keynesian overlords in the academy.2011, Steve Keen, chapter 2, in Debunking Economics — Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?, London & New York: Zed…. From the entry neoclassical
• This chorus of signs rises to a clamor around Side, a favorite Teutonophone destination (over 80 percent of the tourists who visit this region are German, Austrian, or Swiss).1992, “The Central Mediterranean Coast”, in Alan Tucker, editor, The Berlitz Travellers Guide to Turkey 1992, New York, N.Y.: Berlitz…. From the entry teutonophone
• A few yards downstream was a stretch of sloping rock and moss, and here all clamor ceased: only the close-placed ear could detect the muffled squush.1949, William Beebe, High Jungle. From the entry squush
• But I know that to-day there are great questions calling for an answer, wrongs clamoring to be righted, a people in travail that pleads for ease!1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “XIII Peter Pauper”, in The Great House. From the entry travail
• From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry mephitic
• Plain as it may be, the walkway does give kayakers and canoers, who have long clamored for access to the creek, a safe, legal launching area for the first time.2007 September 27, Andy Newman, “Fouled Creek’s Improvement Inspires a Site for Respite”, in New York Times. From the entry canoer

Meaning of clamor

1. noun A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
2. noun Any loud and continued noise.
3. noun A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

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How do you use clamor in a sentence?

Clamor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.”

What is a short sentence with clamor?

“State governors clamor for state control.”

What does clamor mean?

Clamor means a great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.