Example sentences for: uproar

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

  • The Washington Post has a one-deck banner ("Judge Orders Lewinsky to Cooperate") about the resulting "uproar," the latest one to distract senators.

  • The LAT front runs a piece about a comment made by Bill Clinton while he was still in the Middle East yesterday that has caused an uproar in Israel.

  • Imagine the uproar when televisions across the country show the first Democrat rising on the House floor, in a thundering crescendo, to denounce the Republican "coup" against the president.

  • This created a predictable (and justified) uproar at the paper, which caused the publisher, Kathryn Downing, to apologize and mumble some nonsense about how she was unfamiliar with newspaper etiquette, which encouraged reporters and editors at the paper to push editor Michael Parks to assign a story about the whole fiasco, which he eventually did (to David Shaw, the paper's Pulitzer-winning media critic).

  • The latest uproar against President Clinton's racial-dialogue project concerns a meeting in Dallas, moderated by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, to which only blacks were invited.


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