as in roar
a violent shouting
the hue and cry in the classroom when someone let loose a snake
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Recent Examples of hue and cry
And for all the hue and cry over gentrification, the fact is gentrifying neighborhoods bring in families with higher incomes to support the businesses that serve all residents.
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Edward Poteat, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
Neither faced the hue and cry that enveloped Feinstein.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
So the Establishment world that reads and writes has also joined the hue and cry.
—Liz Smith, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
Raising a hue and cry—digitally Perhaps the biggest innovation in the 6 January investigations was nothing that law enforcement itself did, but rather the general public’s response.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2023
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Edward Poteat, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
Neither faced the hue and cry that enveloped Feinstein.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
So the Establishment world that reads and writes has also joined the hue and cry.
—Liz Smith, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
Raising a hue and cry—digitally Perhaps the biggest innovation in the 6 January investigations was nothing that law enforcement itself did, but rather the general public’s response.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2023
See All Example Sentences for hue and cry
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hue and cry
Noun
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There has been the occasional roar, especially when OG Anunoby makes a 3-pointer.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
11 June 2026
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As the Spurs lead shrunk, the roar of the crowd inside MSG raged.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
Noun
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The Texans’ defensive line certainly made some noise, but the anticipation of the Texans’ defensive line played a far bigger impact.—
Sam McDowell
Updated December 8,
Kansas City Star,
8 Dec. 2025
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Bose Sleepbuds play soothing sounds that mask disruptive noise.—
Taylor Haught,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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It’s installed bioacoustic cameras in Yellowstone to track wolves and analyze their howls.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
19 May 2026
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