create a scene
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Defense attorneys said Price’s brother was resisting arrest and helped create a scene of danger and chaos that Moreno was reacting to.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2022
Mr. Myrdal did not attend his mother’s funeral, saying, “I did not want to create a scene with my father.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2020
I didn’t want to create a scene, but I couldn’t help but think: This is beneath me, to sit here pretending I am OK with Generalissimo Wintour.
From The Guardian • May 23, 2020
Guns overtook the Strip in the 1980s to create a scene as wild and raucous as it was ridiculously outfitted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2014
The large ferry steamers plying constantly between the city and the Regla shore, the fleet of little sailing boats, foreign yachts, and rowboats, glancing in the burning sunlight, create a scene of great maritime interest.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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