furor

Example Sentences

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The resulting furor reached the level that “Saturday Night Live” felt the need to chime in over the weekend, pointing out that Chalamet was lobbing stones from inside a glass house.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

The same anger over lost oil wealth and a monarch in the pocket of foreign interests boiled over again in the 1970s, this time driven by religious furor from the charismatic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

This reviewer is a big fan of Mr. Nesbitt, who generates a singular strain of furor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

Following The Atlantic breaking the news of the Hegseth DOD’s troubling security lapse, Vance returned to the chat to joke about the furor surrounding Signalgate.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

For months he had moved along the edge of the furor that raged among the adults of his family, of the neighborhood, and even of the church.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt