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"Turmoil" in a Sentence (16 examples)
The dismissal of foreign minister Tanaka is symbolic of the continuing political turmoil.
The carp's longevity is unmolested by the turmoil of the millipede.
Climate change, civil war, financial hardship, and infrastructural chaos have all caused turmoil in this country.
Tom's outward appearance belies the inner turmoil he's going through.
The economy is in turmoil once again.
Jealousy is a disease; love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.
Meanwhile great Neptune, sore amazed, perceived / the storm let loose, the turmoil of the sky, / and ocean from its lowest depths upheaved. / With calm brow lifted o'er the sea, his eye...
Tom's life was thrown into turmoil.
In the cities nothing is more surprising to a foreigner than to go from the dust and turmoil of a busy street directly into a rustic yard and the felicity of quiet country life. On one of the busy streets of Tokio I had often passed a low shop, the barred front of which was never opened to traffic, nor was there ever any one present with whom to deal. I used often to peer between the bars; and from the form of the wooden boxes on the step-like shelves within, I knew that the occupant was a dealer in old pottery.
Yanni's life was in turmoil.
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Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.
The Taoists developed their philosophy during an extended era of turmoil known as the Warring States period of Chinese history.
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates
It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.
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