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How to use the word clamor in a Sentence?

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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

Charles Eliot Norton

added by Normando
5 years ago

You are going to start to see the U.S. retail customer, not just for Citi, but for the industry, begin to clamor for higher rates.

Citigroup Inc

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There's a clamor for change. This is a broken, thieving government.

Marialbert Barrios

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Edward Hoagland

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

added by anonymous
13 years ago

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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