clamoured
past simple and past participle ofclamour
| 单词 | clamoured |
| 释义 | clamoured past simple and past participle ofclamour clamour verb[I] UK(USclamor)uk/ˈklæm.ər/us/ˈklæm.ɚ/to make aloudcomplaintordemand: Thechildrenwere all clamouringforattention. [+ to infinitive]She clamourstogohomeassoonas she gets toschool. Shouting & screaming
Examplesofclamouredclamoured In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Right-wing politicians in the senate and chamberclamouredfor a hard-line policy and opposed major reductions in military spending. From theCambridge English Corpus Since the 1990s citizens and some politicians haveclamouredto dismantle the closed-list system of electoral representation. From theCambridge English Corpus The press, far from expressing any sympathy for newspapers shut down by the federal government, usuallyclamouredfor more of the same. From theCambridge English Corpus We have already seen that policy before 1939 did not take a pro-artisan direction in the sense of promoting the sort of protectionist measures for which many artisans hadclamoured. From theCambridge English Corpus It is up to the public to back the higher welfare standards that theyclamouredfor us to introduce. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Theyclamouredfor the removal of restrictions, and now they clamour for the restrictions to be put on again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Both the farmers and the labourersclamouredfor him to be put in. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The manufacturersclamouredfor taxes until 1842, but in that year those which affected them began to be cut off in scores and hundreds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Throughout its history, it hasclamouredfor the wider distribution of wealth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 My constituents haveclamouredfor that for a long time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They were the ones whoclamouredfor it, even more loudly than the others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In democratic societies, rights must beclamouredfor unstintingly and not undermined. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English In the past three weeks, we haveclamouredfor a debate on the coal mining dispute, and the police activity associated with it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These provisions were made temporarily at the beginning, and the employers of the country have alwaysclamouredthat they should be made permanent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 No one can allege that the universities haveclamouredfor the scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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