How to Use commotion in a Sentence

commotion

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  • There was a sudden commotion when the actress entered the restaurant.
  • Roger’s teen son heard the commotion and woke up the 7-year-old son.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The lip on the frog chugs and throws water so a small twitch can still produce a lot of commotion.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The light and commotion caused the mountain lion to retreat about 20 feet from the couple in the hot tub.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • What’s all this commotion in the news about gas stoves being banned in the United States?
    — Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Ideally, the owl would be spooked by the commotion and fly right into the trap.
    — Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Ramsay boys coach Denton Johnson saw the commotion on the sideline at the end of the girls game.
    — al, 14 Jan. 2023
  • There was all this commotion outside but he was trapped in that room.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Yet the defense pointed out that no one in the unit heard the commotion or noticed Klein with a bruise on his head.
    — oregonlive, 25 July 2023
  • On Michigan, the tourists who weren’t tearing at the black canvas that blocked views of the race walked briskly into the Loop to avoid the commotion.
    — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • First, a little about the plant that causes all this commotion.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 11 July 2023
  • Here in late November 1943, the city is in a heightened state of commotion.
    — CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Suddenly there is a commotion and the door bursts open.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Photos of the turnout show fans huddled around the arena gates before the commotion.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Ortiz isn’t a fan of the extra commotion that’s coming with the honor.
    — Jabari Young, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • By this point some of the surrounding neighbors have heard the commotion and stepped outside to watch.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 Oct. 2023
  • What's more, she's been known to cause a commotion with other outfits too.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Amid the commotion, Shelley Byars, 45, stepped out from her own tent on the park’s southern corner.
    — Kyle Swenson, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The young boy got up to investigate the commotion and looked visibly stunned in the video.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2023
  • At the neighboring gas station, a car rolled down the window to ask a man pumping gas about the commotion.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The doctor who had started the commotion was on duty when the floodwaters roared in.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The woman who helped alert the family slipped away during the commotion.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • Passengers roused from sleep Hataman said some of the passengers were roused from their sleep due to the commotion caused by the fire.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In the mid-Eighties, Pras heard a commotion and his mother crying.
    — Michael Ames, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The sudden collapse of two midsize banks has caused commotion across the United States.
    — Megan Ditrolio, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Christmas Eve brings a certain zing to the usual Schutte home commotion.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
  • In the midst of the windy commotion, Percy managed to do something historic: capture the sound of a Martian dust devil for the first time.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Absent the commotion, smallmouth bass feed freely throughout the day.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
  • Riley claims his team is paying too much attention to the sort of commotion caused by the critics.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Rattled by the commotion, Buckley looked outside to see what Tasha saw.
    — Longreads, 8 Mar. 2023

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