Synonyms
Examples for "disturbance"
Examples for "disturbance"
1
They forced their way inside when they heard a disturbance, police said.
2
The people in the tent turned in the direction of the disturbance.
3
His execution was reported as a typical case of public order disturbance.
4
Clearly these are populations that cannot stand a great deal of disturbance.
5
There is legitimate fear of more disturbance, said government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn.
1
I thought it was the result of the fray in the Tower.
2
As always, political issues are starting to enter the fray, he said.
3
Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
4
They had been able to join the fray at a critical moment.
5
They had been, in their time, in the thick of the fray.
1
The Metropolitan Police said he had been arrested on suspicion of affray.
2
He had interfered in an affray in a cafe and been stabbed.
3
How the lamentable affray came about could not be explained to me.
4
He had gone by himself one day some time after the affray.
5
In the affray that succeeded, it was said that he was killed.
1
I was startled; Olympos was usually impossible to shock or even ruffle.
2
He could see the dull ruffle of the water under the wind.
3
Such endeavours appeared to ruffle Belvedere, and certainly disrupted any game plan.
4
The second photograph shows a Galliano ruffle dress hanging on a stand.
5
His tempers were the ruffle of a passing breeze upon deep water.
6
A ruffle round the skirt about two inches when that is done.
7
It has a skirt with nine gores and a twelve-inch headed ruffle.
8
Miss Winch, in Detroit, had seemed a girl whom nothing could ruffle.
9
They ruffle everything now, and it will be wide enough for that.
10
Her taunts and jealous fits, her insistent demands did not ruffle me.
11
Satin-like tops had voluminous ruffle endings and were worn with slim trousers.
12
Angélique lifted a ruffle of tante-gra'mère's nightcap and whispered in her ear.
13
Just ruffle your hair a bit, sir-nowyou should do very nicely.
14
She powdered her nose, fixed her neck ruffle, apparently oblivious of Jarvis.
15
He snorted with enough force to ruffle the papers on his desk.
16
Even at eight it took a great deal to ruffle Dora's placidity.
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