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Example sentences for "rumpus"

Lexicographically close words:
rumple; rumpled; rumpless; rumpling; rumps; run; runabout; runabouts; runagate; runagates
  1. He's raised a terrific rumpus about football in general and has tried to get the big game of the year with Edgewood canceled but he can't get away with that.

  2. Now he's going to raise a rumpus for sure!

  3. There doesn't seem to be the likelihood of any rumpus this morning, at all events.

  4. You've no idea, Ridgeway, the rumpus a gun raises in a box like this.

  5. The waiter called the proprietor and a big rumpus occurred.

  6. I was on the point of accepting the offer when a tall, handsome man in uniform appeared, and asked what the rumpus was about.

  7. Rumpus going on,” he said when he came back; “they makes more rumpus in that house, than a score of navvies over one red herring.

  8. Tom, I thank you for trying to ward off this shock; but I'll say right now, with my hand on high, that I am going to start a rumpus about this atrocity that will rock Branton Hills to its foundations!

  9. Me and my partner who was a little bit cripple but mighty smart come up to see what all the rumpus was about, and we was jest the age to do anything.

  10. I don't know whether I believed in conjure much or not in dem days, but anyways I tried it that once and it stirred up sech a rumpus everybody called me "Hand" after that until after I was married and had a pack of children.

  11. I literally couldn't move it for a whole minute; and there was a grand rumpus in the barn; some of the horses got up and whinnied, and the black one that I had sat on kicked and kicked with his hind legs every instant.

  12. I never imagined then all the bother and rumpus that would come of it.

  13. What's the meaning of that rumpus out there?

  14. I loaded up especial for you when you raised that rumpus last night; I knew durned well you'd be coming back.

  15. There wouldn't be so much of a rumpus if they'd got the kid.

  16. Now, if yer go ter cuttin' up a rumpus I'll jest hev ter brain ye, see?

  17. I happened to be awake, and could not conjecture what the rumpus meant.

  18. They are getting up a fine rumpus in the North over the imprisonment of an editor.

  19. I was for kicking up a rumpus direct against the old man's orders.

  20. Not need fear rumpus any longer," said the former, dropping the butt of his weapon to the ground.

  21. And what a rumpus they made and what a chatter, and what stories of the doings at Queen's during that first term they unfolded to their elders.

  22. The rumpus stirred the katydids in their leafy bowers overhead and they were loudly affirming and denying when Mr. Parks gave the boys a word of encouragement.

  23. I've just had the most ghastly rumpus with my wife.

  24. This one is like no other rumpus that ever was.

  25. The dinner will be delayed and there will be a rumpus in the kitchen.

  26. But the dinner will be all the better for waiting and the rumpus will end in Wun Lung taking another rest while Aunt Sally does his work.

  27. This naturally caused a good sized rumpus the next morning.

  28. If that's your game, better fit you was kickin' up a rumpus on the Parish Council than puttin' a spoke into honest trade.

  29. And you should have heard the rumpus over getting a machine down.

  30. He wouldn't have made a rumpus on high moral grounds, I'm sure.

  31. You lawyers always make a lot of rumpus about those things, and a receivership would prejudice the Eastern market when I come to reorganize and sell out.

  32. I shouldn't think she would, with all the row and rumpus they've been having in their family.

  33. It's your own business now, but there'll be a nice little rumpus just the same.

  34. Well, I got upon the spot, an' makin' as leetle rumpus as possible, I went to work to build my trap.

  35. Any fellow who can raise a rumpus like that isn't hurt at all.

  36. Perhaps these boys might raise an unpleasant rumpus at headquarters.

  37. Now, what sort of a queer rumpus would you call that?

  38. At three o'clock the alarm went off with a wholly unnecessary jangle, and after I had explained to the aroused and protesting family what the rumpus was all about, I took a peep at the thermometer.

  39. A couple of days ago one of these powder-burners fired seventeen shots at a squirrel on the beech knoll until the little animal got ashamed of being a party to such a rumpus and retired disdainfully into his hole.

  40. So you may fancy the rumpus when strange Potatoes arriving here find one of their breed----' he laughed again.

  41. Them chaps make rumpus all time,' he said.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rumpus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ado; agitation; argument; bedlam; blast; bluster; bother; brawl; broil; cacophony; chaos; charivari; clamor; clap; clash; clatter; coil; commotion; contention; controversy; din; discord; disorder; dispute; disturbance; ebullition; embroilment; fanaticism; ferment; flap; fomentation; fracas; fray; frenzy; fume; furor; furore; fury; fuss; hassle; howl; hubbub; hullabaloo; hurrah; jangle; melee; noise; outcry; pandemonium; passion; pother; quarrel; racket; rage; rampage; rattle; rhubarb; riot; roar; roughhouse; row; ruckus; rumble; rumpus; scramble; scrap; scrimmage; shindy; stir; storm; thunder; trouble; tumult; turbulence; turmoil; uproar; upset; zeal