Example sentences for: furor

How can you use “furor” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The paper said that the revelation is certain to draw Sydney into the bribes furor, which has already caused two IOC delegates to resign over the scandal surrounding Salt Lake City, Utah's successful bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

  • This head scarf recently caused a furor in Turkish schools and universities, when an old law prohibiting its use was suddenly enforced.

  • The conservative Jerusalem Post caused a furor Sunday by claiming in its lead story that Hamas bomber Mohiyedine Sharif was murdered not by the Israeli secret service, as had been widely suggested, but by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.

  • At the time of publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961), commonly referred to as Webster's Third (but in these pages, for the sake of brevity, as MW3 or MWIII ), I was director of the reference department of Random House, preparing what was later to be published as The Random House Dictionary of the English Dictionary - Unabridged Edition . It was therefore entirely inappropriate for me to comment on either the MWIII itself or the furor raised by its critics and supporters.

  • The furor over the book led to the removal of a bust of Koestler from Edinburgh University.


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