Sentence examples for a small commotion from inspiring English sources

At that moment, there was a small commotion at the entrance to the auditorium.

There was a small commotion in the restaurant, the clink of cutlery momentarily suspended.

A small commotion at the post- funeral drinks forced Patrick to half open an eye.

Midway through our entrees, we heard a small commotion at the next table and turned to look.

There was a small commotion coming from the rear of the room, some smattered applause, and Arianna, weaving her way through the crowd.

His presence caused a small commotion behind the desk, as officers tried to figure out how to handle the large man with the entourage.

Harris, wearing an untucked pullover and jeans, quietly charmed those who either read of his lightly marketed appearance at the supermarket or rolled a cart over to see what the small commotion was about.

There was some small commotion last year, and some old cadres called us, taking a very tough stance.

So his sudden decision this spring to take up the cause of black Coca-Cola employees in their racial-discrimination claims against the company has created no small commotion, dividing the plaintiffs by promising to win them enormous sums of money and threatening the tentative settlement in the federal lawsuit that was announced last week.

There is some small commotion perhaps at Lowestoft, England's most easterly point, or Ipswich, the county's capital, but otherwise Suffolk's idea of grime and bustle is Bury St Edmunds, founded after (perhaps) the last piece of unpleasantness to occur in Suffolk, in 869, when England's first patron saint, King Edmund the Martyr, was slain by the Danes at Hoxne.

There's a minor commotion up ahead.