OUTCRY in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for OUTCRY, such as:
1. Raised outcry, and all came on deck.
2. The bombing caused an international outcry.
3. The killing caused an international outcry.
4. All their outcry did them no good, of course.
5. The three women broke into indignant outcries.
2. The bombing caused an international outcry.
3. The killing caused an international outcry.
4. All their outcry did them no good, of course.
5. The three women broke into indignant outcries.
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Meanings and Examples of OUTCRY
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outcry
n. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
v. shout louder than
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 As food and clothing grew scarcer and prices rose higher and higher, the public outcry against the speculators grew louder and more venomous.
2 Pork set up an outcry which she found infuriating.
3 All their outcry did them no good, of course.
4 The outcry was renewed, and the order, not only to fire again, but to pursue, was too plainly audible.
5 As he looked the youth gripped his outcry at his throat.
6 He was startled from this view by a shrill outcry from the tattered man.
7 When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry.
8 Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what this outcry meant; but Harry Maylie, whose perceptions were something quicker, and who had heard Oliver's history from his mother, understood it at once.
9 Raised outcry, and all came on deck.
10 I think I would have raised an outcry if I had believed my eyes.
11 Almost instantly, in the midst of a tremendous and general outcry, seven or eight horses, excited by the shouts of three hundred thousand spectators, passed by like lightning.
12 As she spoke, Jo took off her bonnet, and a general outcry arose, for all her abundant hair was cut short.
13 They asked themselves whether he had indeed uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been the one to give that terrible outcry.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
14 Pork, Mammy and Prissy set up outcries at the idea of working in the fields.
15 The three women broke into indignant outcries.
Example Sentence:
1 The closure of the local hospital has caused a huge public outcry.
2 The bombing caused an international outcry.
3 The killing caused an international outcry.
4 A public outcry secured her release from detention.
5 The release from prison of two of the terrorists has provoked a public outcry.
6 Improvements to our education system will require relentless and vocal outcry from the parents whose children suffer most from the current schools.
7 Inspired by the splendor of his own act, he took without an outcry.
8 The stories dominated news cycles, to be sure, but the outcry accompanying Mr Weinstein's downfall seems louder and more impassioned.