How to Use hubbub in a Sentence
hubbub
noun- We went to the country to escape the hubbub of the city.
- What's all the hubbub about?
- All the hubbub in the airport made it hard to hear the flight announcements.
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The hubbub of a pub heard when the door opens to the street.
— Fay Bound Alberti, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2019 -
The hubbub of the dispersing crowd joined with the other sounds of the city.
— Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022 -
All of this, of course, just adds to the happy hubbub in the library.
— Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 12 May 2023 -
The hubbub over the suits began midway through the 2014 Games.
— Andrew Keh, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018 -
The wealthy have the means to escape the hubbub; the rest of us must cover our ears with our hands.
— Dwight Garner, Esquire, 31 Oct. 2017 -
Why not buy a ticket and see what all the hubbub is about?
— Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 July 2017 -
The hubbub over Kennedy and Choco Taco inspired me to seek out both.
— Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022 -
Scott and Sofia are used to a certain amount of press, but all the hubbub would irk me.
— Anna Millard, refinery29.com, 27 May 2018 -
Just a few years ago, all of this hubbub was unheard of.
— Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2021 -
People in wheelchairs had to wait for breaks in the hubbub to get a glimpse at all.
— Katy Steinmetz/san Francisco, Time, 17 Mar. 2018 -
When the paper came out in April, there was so much hubbub about it.
— Jessica Ravitz, Smithsonian, 9 Dec. 2019 -
In the cooling shade of the Gobi tent, the music felt like a balm for the noise and hubbub of the weekend to come.
— Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022 -
The kids looked forward to their night at Aunt Jackie’s, away from the hubbub.
— Kate Storey, Town & Country, 4 July 2023 -
Tresco The second largest island, Tresco feels a world away from the hubbub of St Mary's.
— Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 June 2024 -
The hubbub prompts the question: Is Free Shipping Day worth it?
— NBC News, 14 Dec. 2019 -
If that’s not enough, 100 trees dot the landscape to help the owners feel far away from neighbors and the hubbub of the city.
— Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2023 -
Over the course of the last year there’s been a lot of hubbub around South Beach’s Collins Park neighborhood.
— Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024 -
But walk toward the heart of the hubbub, past the smoke of sizzling turkey legs, and the scene transforms.
— Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2023 -
When the hubbub dies down, the weird stuff starts happening.
— G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020 -
And with so much hubbub around the films comes a lot of fun red carpet moments.
— Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 14 July 2023 -
Time to wake up, to free ourselves from the hubbub, to slip off our numb, dying selves, and come alive to the least of these.
— Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Online, 22 Dec. 2020 -
Push-carts loaded with sacks of grain bump and jostle through the hubbub.
— The Economist, 2 Aug. 2019 -
Which suggests that this was a whole lot of hubbub over a whole lot of nothing.
— Jake Woolf, GQ, 6 Mar. 2018 -
As a veteran of the race, he wasn’t rattled by the other teams and all the hubbub around him.
— Alex Kormann, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020 -
The hubbub came at the start of the men’s singles draw when Jack Draper’s name appeared in the second slot in the 128-man field.
— Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023 -
The actress declined to speak to the media and opted for a more low-key route around the hubbub of the carpet.
— Sydney Bergan, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024 -
After all the hubbub of the arrests, a year later, the four defendants closest to the scheme have pleaded guilty piecemeal to lesser charges.
— Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
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