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How to use tumult in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Tumult means confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd. Example: “The tumults of war will subside.”

Examples of tumult by meaning

nounA violent commotion or agitation, often with a confusion of sounds.

  • the tumult of the elements
  • the tumult of the spirits or passions
  • The icy surface is going to break and you're totally engulfed in the tumult.1990 December 9, Walta Borawski, quoting Allen Barnett, “'Unfortunately, Life Has Followed Art...'”, in Gay Community News, volume 18...

More sentences with tumult

  • The tumults of war will subside.From the entry subside
  • It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.2016 April 28, Andrew Picard, Myk Habets, Theology and the Experience of Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down…. From the entry saltland
  • What I mean is that there are structures in all this tumult, as there are in all human dealings.2010, Fred Inglis, A Short History of Celebrity, page 286. From the entry peltable
  • When he finished his act, there was a tumult of hand -clapping, reproduced with great power by the nine-valver.1938 July 5, Practical and Amateur Wireless, volume 12, number 294, page 194, column 1. From the entry valver
  • The overbrilliant colors have faded; the over-emphasis has ceased to be effective — ‘‘The tumult and the shouting dies.”1914, Reed Edward Bliss, English Lyrical Poetry, Yale University Press, page 549. From the entry overbrilliant
  • The Winklevosses say this week’s tumult is just growing pains for a digital currency that they believe will become a sort of gold for the technorati.2013 April 11, Nathaniel Popper, Peter Lattman, “Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money”, in New York Times. From the entry technorati
  • Their appearance leads to an orgy of multitudinous fornications, a wild tumult of perversions and obscene interlacings which language is dislocated and fiercely fractured to express.1989, Contemporary literary criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative…. From the entry fecality
  • A shuffling from the pit is drowned by the tumult of the top gallery, where the crowd whoops and whistles and stamps like a cloudful of angels on a spree.2014, John Dickson Carr, Most Secret. From the entry cloudful

Meaning of tumult

  1. noun Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
  2. noun A violent commotion or agitation, often with a confusion of sounds.
  3. noun A riot or uprising.

Full definition of tumult

Questions about tumult in a sentence

How do you use tumult in a sentence?
Tumult is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The tumults of war will subside.”
What is a short sentence with tumult?
“the tumult of the elements”
What does tumult mean?
Tumult means confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.

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