How to Use furor in a Sentence

furor

noun

• The book caused a furor across the country.
• Amid a public furor, the senator continues to deny the allegations.
• To create a furor over the innocent use of pronouns is inane.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• Patten appeared to acknowledge the furor in her speech.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2021
• The decision led to a social media furor with conservative media.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
• Zuckerberg, for his part, has largely dismissed the furor triggered by the Facebook Papers as unfair.
  — Barbara Ortutay, ajc, 28 Oct. 2021
• His assertion in 2020 that apartheid was not a crime against humanity stirred up a furor in South Africa.
  — Andrew Meldrum and Cara Anna, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021
• Like McDonald’s, Chipotle was targeted by social media furor — but over portion sizes rather than prices.
  — Melissa Repko,amelia Lucas, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2024
• The furor over the magician and the books prompted Wyoming Equality to talk with local officials about the threats and offer support to library staff.
  — Mead Gruver, ajc, 2 Oct. 2021
• But as the furor over Chappelle reached a new level of intensity Monday, some observers wondered if Netflix might be minding the proverbial bottom line.
  — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2021
• In the wake of the furor, Williams found herself at a crossroads.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2022
• That could give time for some of the current furor to die down.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
• That’s the one that’s getting the furor out of everybody.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 June 2023
• Despite the furor, Williams said the name change has proved to be a good thing thus far.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• In the midst of the furor, the subject of expanding the field size for the tournament was broached.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022
• This tweet set the tone for the social media furor that followed.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
• Berg next took a leading role in the public furor over the use of stem cells to cure disease.
  — John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• The move caused a furor among users who lamented the shift away from stills on the photo-sharing app.
  — Steven Widen, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• Breath of the Wild, while its sequel was somewhat lost in the furor over Elden Ring.
  — Swapna Krishna, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2022
• By Tuesday night here, the furor didn’t seem to be a distraction.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• This furor reminds me of the Prince and Princess of Wales’s disastrous tour of the Caribbean in 2022.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• Grape Nuts syrup just wouldn’t cause much of a furor on Instagram.
  — Hallie Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022
• Nowhere was that clearer than in the furor over policing that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• The creation of the panel set off a furor, prompting her to resign and the group to be dismantled.
  — Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Once again, furor over a drag event is prompting the City Council’s action.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
• The European teams backed down, but the furor persisted.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 June 2023
• And some of those corporations took a sales hit during the furor.
  — Sarah Kate Ellis, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• And Zhihao Kong, the grad student at the center of the furor at Purdue, also spoke out.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2021
• By late 2023, though, amid all the furor, even Gaudiani was walking back parts of the paper.
  — Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The furor was so extreme that the Federal Trade Commission contacted sellers about the fees amid the agency’s antitrust suit against the tech giant.
  — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024