Sample Sentences for
tumult
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tumult as in:  couldn't hear over the tumult

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    I couldn't hear her over the tumult.
    tumult = loud disorderly noise
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    Lina clutched the edge of the clock tower as if the tumult below might cause her to fall.  (source)
    tumult = noise and disorder
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    Then an unmistakable voice rose above the tumult and there was immediate silence.  (source)
    tumult = noise from a disorderly event
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    The teams walked onto the field to tumultuous applause.  (source)
    tumultuous = loud and unrestrained
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    ...as the music swells tumultuously.  (source)
    tumultuously = in a loud, unrestrained manner
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    A tumult of conversation rose behind him.  (source)
    tumult = loud, disorderly sound
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    So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.†  (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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    Then, amid tumultuous applause, out walked Gordie Howe, one of the legends of the game.  (source)
    tumultuous = loud and unrestrained
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    At a wave of my hand my deliverers hurried tumultuously away.  (source)
    tumultuously = in a noisy disorderly manner
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    Then these separate sounds collided into the general tumult of his body falling clumsily down the white marble stairs.  (source)
    tumult = noise from a disorderly event
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    Over this tumultuousness and family heat, melding yells at the pinochle table, the racing of the kids, pitchers of cocoa and tea and masses of coffee cake carried in, political booming and the sharper neighing of women and all this grand vital discord, there was the supervision of Uncle Charlie standing, or rather rearing, beside his wigged mother in her black dress.†  (source)
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    Then came a ringing and knocking at the front door, that grew at last tumultuous,  (source)
    tumultuous = loud disorderly noise
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    My human fixture and her satellites rushed to welcome me; exclaiming, tumultuously, they had completely given me up: everybody conjectured that I perished last night; and they were wondering how they must set about the search for my remains.†  (source)
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tumult as in:  tumult in financial markets

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There was tumult in Tijuana as drug cartels fought for control.
tumult = confusion or disorder
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    I was lucky to survive the tumultuous years of my youth.
    tumultuous = turbulent (with confusion and disorder)
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    She's writing a book of Afghanistan's tumultuous history.
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    Here the glacier spills abruptly over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaward through a gap between two mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice. As I stared at the tumult from a mile away, for the first time since leaving Colorado, I was truly afraid.  (source)
    tumult = disorderly situation
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    But above all the noise and tumult of the crowd could be heard the merchants' voices loudly advertising their products.  (source)
    tumult = disturbance
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    From this sprung the rebellion at Urbino and the tumults in the Romagna, with endless dangers to the duke, all of which he overcame with the help of the French.†  (source)
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    Yesterday was a very tumultuous day, and we're still all wound up.  (source)
    tumultuous = turbulent (confused and disordered)
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    His thoughts had rushed through his head so tumultuously that perhaps he hadn't got them down in order clearly and sanely.  (source)
    tumultuously = turbulently (with confusion and disorder)
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    They had broken into tumult instead of action.  (source)
    tumult = confusion and disorder
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    And if his successors had been united they would have enjoyed it securely and at their ease, for there were no tumults raised in the kingdom except those they provoked themselves.†  (source)
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    Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene.  (source)
    tumultuous = turbulent (confused and disordered)
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    The physical fight between them is over, replaced by a raging tumult within Lale.  (source)
    tumult = state of confusion and disorder
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    Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?†  (source)
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    A great cry went up from the people as they saw crashing, tumultuous waters fill the dark hole.  (source)
    tumultuous = turbulent (confused or disordered)
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