ruckus

Example Sentences

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The projections could change all that and even create enough of a ruckus to get a reluctant, car-crazed city to make that Grand Avenue block pedestrian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Those renovations raised a brief ruckus over the summer after Administration officials such as Russ Vought of the Office of Management and Budget accused the Fed of running over budget on a needlessly grandiose project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

The ruckus began after Christian Braun fouled Harden with 6.6 seconds left in the second quarter, causing a lot of pushing and shoving.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

Efforts to silence people who create a ruckus suggest that “the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025

Somewhere during the ruckus of the last few months, he’d found a muddy pair of women’s pants and spread them out to lie on, like a beach blanket.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer