pother

Example Sentences

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There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists.

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Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother.

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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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But the other occupants, so far from complaining, seemed equally wrapped up in their own affairs, and oblivious to the pother.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)