Disturbance

The police intervened in the disturbance.

The police arrested Tom after responding to reports of a disturbance at his home.

I'm afraid that I've caused a slight disturbance.

I sense a disturbance in the Force.

As the love of money has been, in all ages, one of the passions that have given great disturbance to the tranquillity of the world, there is no topic more copiously treated by the ancient moralists than the folly of devoting the heart to the accumulation of riches.

Our journey was quiet, without any disturbance.

Coastal development and village sprawl is occurring at a rapid rate and is resulting in a loss of sea turtle nesting areas with associated disturbance of nesting females.

Threats to marine bird populations worldwide include competition for food with fisheries; entanglement in fishing gear; ingestion of marine debris and disturbance of roosting and breeding birds by watercraft, aircraft, humans and introduced species (especially cats, rats and foxes), environmental pollution and oil spills.

Please drive slowly near sensitive habitats such as kelp forests and bird rookeries to minimize disturbance.

As wind blows across the surface of the ocean or a lake, the continual disturbance creates a wave crest.