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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
clamour .
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Examples
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I was duly impressed, but stated that I had to get back to work as the entire class clamoured that they wanted to join my car club.
The Rainbow Clockwerkz Hugh Barlow 2012
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Captain Higginson clamoured wildly for an injunction.
Chun Ah Chun 2010
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I'm not saying it's totally wrong to desire a male or female child because even common sense tells us variety is the spice of life but the well being of a family should not be jeopardised because a malechild is being clamoured for.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Like the business groups that clamoured for austerity and are now squealing just as loudly for massive infrastructure investment and tax breaks, this is a government whose guiding philosophy hasn't stood up to the real world.
Laissez-faire has failed us. Now we're getting panicky intervention 2011
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Mrs Obama was presented with a Lakers jersey by a club official, and fans clamoured to talk to the First Lady who seemed more than happy to accommodate them … Mrs Obama watched the Los Angeles Lakers extend the NBA finals to a decisive seventh game with a 89-67 victory over the Boston Celtics.
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Hundreds of canoes lay twenty deep along both sides of the Arangi, and each boy, with his box and bell, was clamoured for by scores of relatives and friends.
CHAPTER X 2010
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The words of his song were like fire in us, and we clamoured to be led against the Meat-Eaters.
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The operation continued amid fears that the electronic locks on cabin doors, opened by cards with magnetic strips, had automatically locked shut during the blackouts on board the vessel as passengers clamoured to be allowed on to lifeboats.
Cruise ship scene marked by modern totem of disaster in medieval harbour 2012
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The "abysmal fecundity" was stirred and life clamoured to be created.
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The value of Groupon and other social media sites including Facebook and gaming company Zynga have soared as investors have clamoured to get in on the action.
Discount firm Groupon aims for $750m in US stock market float 2011
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