pother

Example Sentences

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The colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the pother he had started went on.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he said, "Well?" and said it in a quite commonplace, ordinary voice, as though he wondered what there was to make any pother about.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)