pother

Example Sentences

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Thus it was amid no end of Imperial pother last week that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap.

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Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.

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So all this pother was about a mere invitation to dinner!

From The Four Corners of the World by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)