All 4 Uses of
turbulent
in
Catch-22
- …one fell in the yard, exactly where he had aimed, and then the rest of the bombs from his own plane and from the other planes in his flight burst open on the ground in a charge of rapid orange flashes across the tops of the buildings, which collapsed instantly in a vast, churning wave of pink and gray and coal-black smoke that went rolling out turbulently in all directions and quaked convulsively in its bowels as though from great blasts of red and white and golden sheet lightning.†
Chpt 15
- She stamped her foot and raised her arm in a turbulent gesture that made Yossarian fear she was going to crack him in the face again with her great pocketbook.†
Chpt 16 *
- Minutes passed like hours before he finally recognized himself as the source of the turbulent roar that was overwhelming him.†
Chpt 25
- All at once he realized — though the writhing turbulence beneath him had not diminished one whit — that she was no longer grappling with him, recognized with a quiver that she was not fighting him but heaving her pelvis up against him remorselessly in the primal, powerful, rhapsodic instinctual rhythm of erotic ardor and abandonment.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(turbulent) a state of disturbance and disorder
or:
of liquid or gas: rapid and irregular flow