Sample sentences for TURBULENT

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Definition

a state of disturbance and disorder

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of liquid or gas: rough (rapid and irregular flow)

turbulent = rough (with irregular flow)

turbulent = rough

turbulence = irregular wind

Wind whipped through the wide hole; any one of them could go tumbling to their death if they hit turbulence.
James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials

turbulence = rough winds

A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

turbulence = rough waters (figuratively)

I wondered how Richard was navigating the turbulent waters between his normal wife and his abnormal parents.
Tara Westover -- Educated

turbulent = rough

Fast-moving, dark clouds streamed just above her head, blocking the sunlight and obscuring the signs of eddies and turbulence.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

turbulence = rough water

But Nikki's hands were full with her own turbulent high school experience, which was about to come to a close.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

turbulent = disorderly

I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

turbulent = disturbing

turbulence = irregular wind (causing sudden jerks)

Worried about flying too low and getting nailed by unexpected turbulence, he stayed at least a thousand feet above me, believing all the while he was just off the deck, and never saw my tent in the flat evening light.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

turbulence = irregular winds

Janie was tired and limping, but she had not had to do that hard swimming in the turbulent waters, so Tea Cake was much worse off.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

turbulent = rough

With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

turbulent = rough (disturbed)

Normal measures of time don't seem to apply, and the unpredictable turbulence of flight fills the dark space with an ever-present tension.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

turbulence = irregular movement through air

Twenty thousand feet above the Mediterranean, Alitalia flight 1618 bounced in turbulence, causing passengers to shift nervously.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

turbulence = rough wind

In order to make one's way amid these turbulent and conflicting waves, it was necessary to be an officer, a great noble, or a pretty woman.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

turbulent = rough

[The pilot] is maintaining his present course at Mach .73, even though embedded thunderstorms have been reported in your area and you encounter moderate turbulence.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

turbulence = rough winds

The Milwaukee Braves won the World Series, and the hot winds of change that would make the sixties a turbulent, racing, dangerous, and provocative decade had not yet begun to blow full.
August Wilson -- Fences

turbulent = disorderly

My beginning was extremely turbulent, being pushed and pulled in every direction.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

turbulent = a state of disturbance and disorder

I was researching how fish swim in turbulent flow and discovered that they could surf on swirling eddies without using much muscle.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II

turbulent = rough (rapid and irregular flow) (or disturbed and disordered)

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