Sample Sentences for
tempest
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    A tempest swept over the island.
    tempest = storm
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    That quote was taken from Shakespeare's final play, "The Tempest."  (source)
    Tempest = the name of a play based on the common noun which means "violent storm"
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    Good thing I had The Tempest at school this year, isn't it, Charles?  (source)
    Tempest = the name of a Shakespeare play based on the common noun which means "violent storm"
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    Making it, however, was a long, ridiculously involved process: A potful of snow had to be gathered outside in the tempest, the stove assembled and lit, the oatmeal and sugar located, the remnants of yesterday's dinner scraped from my bowl.  (source)
    tempest = storm
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    It was his habit to walk to and from church every Sunday, and this he did, undeterred by tempests, boiling sun, or freezing weather.†  (source)
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    "...but once a man left us some plays from England that were good reading. There was one about a shipwreck on an island in the Indies." Kit bounced up off the grass in excitement. "You mean The Tempest?"  (source)
    Tempest = the name of a Shakespeare play based on the common noun which means "violent storm"
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    Those nights, as I wrote in silence, I could once again experience the sights and sounds of my youth in Qunu and Mqhekezweni; the excitement and fear of coming to Johannesburg; the tempests of the Youth League; the endless delays of the Treason Trial; the drama of Rivonia.†  (source)
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    Yet here they were, caught in a freak tempest, their yacht being thrown about like the toy in Aubrey's lap.  (source)
    tempest = violent storm
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    I think John Kwang would be a man to keep his boys close, keep May even closer, that he would collect the four of them in one shut-away room and have them sleep and eat and bathe all together until the tempests subsided.†  (source)
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    "Well, I don't think it's exactly like The Tempest," I said.  (source)
    Tempest = the name of a Shakespeare play based on the common noun which means "violent storm"
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    Tribulation wasn't just tempests, hurricanes, floods and fires like the things they had in the Bible.†  (source)
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    The sports pages of the Los Angeles Times and Examiner were striped with stories on the prodigy, whom the Times called the "Torrance Tempest" and practically everyone else called the "Torrance Tornado."  (source)
    Tempest = storm
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    I hated these emotional outbursts, these tempests of passion, for they always left me tense and weak.†  (source)
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