Sample Sentences for
tempestuous
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    At the moment, the tempestuous quarrels have subsided; only Dussel and the van Daans are still at loggerheads.  (source)
    tempestuous = emotionally turbulent
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    The fiddlers begin a swift, tempestuous tune, and Keenan takes my hip in one hand and my fingers in the other.  (source)
    tempestuous = turbulent
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    They had fortitude and self-reliance, and in time of difficulty or peril stood up for the welfare of the state like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide.  (source)
    tempestuous = violently turbulent
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    Abbe' Mably says that the popular government, so tempestuous elsewhere, caused no disorders in the members of the Achaean republic, because it was tempered by the laws of the confederacy.  (source)
    tempestuous = violently turbulent
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    A shadow fronted him tempestuously. "You shut up, you fat slug!"  (source)
    tempestuously = in a rough, turbulent manner
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    But Mama had put in many years of appeasing tempestuousness or staying out of its way, and she very likely had more trouble as a result of one of Simon's visits than she ever did with her companions.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Mrs. Worthington must pay for her disgrace, and her daughter is far too bold and tempestuous a creature.  (source)
    tempestuous = strongly turbulent -- as of a storm or unstable emotions
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    After all, there was the Marne — that classic line of defence where everything must come to a standstill, the way it does in the fermata of the second section of Chopin's B minor scherzo, in a stormy tempo of quavers going on and on, more and more tempestuously, until the closing chord — at which point the Germans would retreat to their own border as vigorously as they had advanced; leading to the end of the war and an Allied victory.†  (source)
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    Beside this is a matching engraving of James McDermott, shown in the overblown collar of those days, with his hair in a forward-swept arrangement reminiscent of Napoleon's, and meant to suggest tempestuousness.†  (source)
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    The problem was that so many who criticized his writings had never bothered to read them, Adams said. Some misunderstood them, others willfully misrepresented them. Either way, he had been made the victim of "tempestuous abuse."  (source)
    tempestuous = violent
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    But unpopularity is often a compliment—and Guenever, though she lived tempestuously and finally died in an unreconciled sort of way—she was not cut out for religion, as Lancelot was—was never insignificant.†  (source)
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    They would learn, said Cook, that Danny Hansford was "a violent and tempestuous character" and that he was the aggressor in this case.†  (source)
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    She handled her subjects agreeably, and they were, perhaps, more worthy of attention than the high discourse upon Guelfs and Ghibellines which was proceeding tempestuously at the other end of the room.†  (source)
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