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disturbance

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As a precaution against a possible disturbance, the ferry was escorted by a police boat, its blue lights flashing.

“I think that there will be an ability that people will get to have their voice heard without disturbance,” Bratton said.

Playing in her yard one day, she saw “a ripple, a disturbance of the air … My first thought is that I have seen the devil.”

The stakes of each disturbance rise accordingly—increasing the sense of general crisis and emergency washing over the globe.

The man was a member of the Los Angeles police force investigating a disturbance at such-and-such and address.

“I fretted and fumed all next day, and raised a great disturbance,” rejoined the old gentleman.

The intensity of this drama, however, being interior, caused little outward disturbance that casual onlookers need have noticed.

Then Gaubert returned with a tale that you had been killed and that there was a disturbance in the Champs aux Capuchins.

His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions.

Thus was a most important revolution brought about without bloodshed, and almost without disturbance.

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On this page you'll find 141 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disturbance, such as: brawl, confusion, disorder, disruption, eruption, and explosion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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