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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of clamor.

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Examples

  • WAUCHULA - The phone calls clamored in from Miami, Europe and Australia to the line of a tiny office near Perez's Produce and Pig Farm.

    South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes 2009

  • Whereupon and almost with bodily violence the correspondents clamored to go with him, fluttered greenbacks before his eyes, and spilled yellow twenties from hand to hand.

    THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

  • Since then some investors clamored to create a market for selling their shares, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

    Caesars IPO Opens Doors Alexandra Berzon 2012

  • Consumers have clamored for more user-friendly, application-rich smartphones.

    Halliburton Is Trading Its BlackBerrys for iPhones Will Connors 2012

  • People clamored to grab the limited number of accounts available.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Even while the war in the Pacific continued, the public clamored for the benefits of peace.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Some Comic Riffs readers had clamored for this very thing, and the Post's Pulitzer-winning Toles is just the man to do it.

    BEST COMICS CONTEST: And the winners of your 2011 Riffy Awards are... Michael Cavna 2011

  • Dennin's absence, and affected a mysterious air, while they clamored for information.

    THE UNEXPECTED 2010

  • Americans clamored for the abolition of rationing and other wartime restrictions.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • And when his soul clamored for expression, it usually uttered itself in one or the other of the two ways, and more usually in both ways.

    BÂTARD 2010

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