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Example sentences for "fuss"

Lexicographically close words:
fusillades; fusils; fusing; fusion; fusions; fusse; fussed; fussent; fusses; fussily
  1. He had resented the fuss that had been made about David Powell.

  2. Oh, you don't know what a fuss Jonathan has been making lately about Rhoda!

  3. What a fuss I have been making about nothing!

  4. Mrs. Carruthers made a fuss at Doucet’s because my last set tore so soon, and they altered these.

  5. He saw now that he had been foolish to undertake the work as he had done, but he realised that it would not help his case to make a fuss about it.

  6. They are making a great fuss of this Moor in Nice," he said, "but if I remember rightly, Nice invariably has some weird lion to adore.

  7. Now, don't make a fuss about it, Jean, I couldn't help it.

  8. And Voltaire--this sane sun-born child of the shameless intellect--never permits us for a moment to forget how ridiculous in the last resort all this fuss about the matter is.

  9. It's all a fuss about nothing," said Mr. Green, brazenly.

  10. O' course I made a fuss when I found out how I had been deceived.

  11. That tribeless old Injin made something of a fuss about your being out of the way; I dare say he wanted you to help back the furniture down to the canoes.

  12. Fuss begin wid gran'mudder; now get down to gran'da'ghter.

  13. Fox, with the truly British face of one who is understood at last, but makes no fuss about it, gave up his horse at the lych-gate, and made off where he was beckoned for.

  14. He has been so knocked about himself, and so close to death's door more than once, that he looks upon this as a fuss about nothing.

  15. What a d----d fuss he makes about nothing!

  16. And if the skipper makes a fuss about it, the authorities at home 'll bear me out.

  17. But there's no call to make a fuss about it; I own up that I was just a little bit `sprung' last night; but what of it?

  18. Well then, why make such a fuss about it?

  19. It was as if she had said to him that since he owed that to her, a debt so unique, so enormous that he could never dream of paying it back in one lifetime, wasn't it rather absurd and rather mean of him to make a fuss about the rest?

  20. No wonder he had been angry at the fuss she had made over Lucille Lemesurier!

  21. And you'll be thinking, 'What an idiotic fuss I made over that girl I met in Grand Canary.

  22. To have all that worry with Mary, all that silly trouble and fuss for a foolish entertainment that he detested, all for nothing at all!

  23. You don't want to make a fuss about birthdays now we're getting on.

  24. The three companies of askaris fell in, marched down to the bayou and embarked without fuss or confusion, each group under a non-commissioned officer to the appointed canoe.

  25. Neither Yabolo nor Sakamata, as Bakahenzie, could comprehend a chief and a warrior making such a fuss over a girl.

  26. Patty, whose little heart scarcely beat any faster than usual, in spite of all the fuss she had made, "I couldn't help but laugh!

  27. If the committee can't make a fuss about it, I will.

  28. In the midst of the fuss and tumult the bride, very grave and serene, with shining eyes, went her appointed way.

  29. At last Bill made so much fuss about it that the ship's company laughed, and all called out to each other, `Who has seen Sall's shoe?

  30. If Abraham was around he'd feel pretty cheap just now, to see the fuss they're making about her.

  31. People make a fuss about them and blacken their noses looking through smoked glass at them, and then they are gone in a twinkling, and not worth all the time that was wasted looking at them.

  32. Scarcely expected to brush old General Scott's fuss and feathers into a cock'd up hat, eh?

  33. The looks of such fine fat fish raised a mighty fuss in the town, everybody forgot the politics and the prayer meetings, and begun to talk fish.

  34. Why, some years ago, there was a great fuss made about a letter which was sent to Captain Falkner, when he was living at the Hall.

  35. There's going to be a fuss over that letter of Preen's, which appears to have been unaccountably lost.

  36. Compare a work over which a tremendous fuss is made in the present day with one of those romances or novels of the past when some of us were young--works written by Scott, and Bulwer, and others I need not mention.

  37. If that is all his discovery, what is the use of making such a fuss about it?

  38. Why is there such a fuss made about the purchase of benefices, the possession of pluralities, and the management of bishops to get more income than they ought to have?

  39. And General Fothergill was in such a fuss about her, and so terrified of her getting any other illness, that he forbade her making friends with any one out of Miss Bogle's house, unless he was asked about it, and wrote to give leave.

  40. She was not at all coddling or stupid like that about us boys, though her being in such a fuss that evening Pete was lost may have seemed so.

  41. All brave men dislike to have a fuss made over them, I know.

  42. There'll be a terrific fuss if he finds it out, but perhaps he won't.

  43. It was nothing in the world to make a fuss over--and I swear to you if it were the last word I ever spoke--I did not know it was your brother.

  44. I only lied because you make such a fuss it gives me a headache.

  45. Just now thar was a big fuss because I hadn't sent all the fresh butter to market, and I thought he'd have a fit when he found I was saving some asparagus for dinner to-morrow.

  46. I knew he'd never make a fuss if I could only get ill enough, but the next morning I felt all right, so I came away.

  47. It's worse than any fuss you ever heard of or ever saw.

  48. It's the first fuss I ever made with you, I reckon," returned Fletcher, softening before the accusation.

  49. I know how to manage you; if you make any fuss I shall just tickle you finely," said Nancy, as she prepared a bed of coals, and set the cup of gruel on it to get hot.

  50. He always does what I want him to," said the good-humoured chambermaid, "but he generally makes a fuss about it first.

  51. You can't think what a fuss she makes if I have more than just so many white clothes in the wash every week.

  52. The impression of his testimony which the Report gave is of an almost scornful impatience with all this fuss and pother.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fuss" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.