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a state of disturbance and disorderor:
of liquid or gas: rough (rapid and irregular flow)
- I'm afraid of such turbulent rapids.
turbulent = rough (with irregular flow)
- We were going through turbulent economic times when I graduated.
- The plane jerked as it went through some turbulence.
- 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
- 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
- I wondered how Richard was navigating the turbulent waters between his normal wife and his abnormal parents.Tara Westover -- Educated
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ...the plane hit a small bit of turbulence.Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Twenty thousand feet above the Mediterranean, Alitalia flight 1618 bounced in turbulence, causing passengers to shift nervously.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- 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
- [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
- 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
- My beginning was extremely turbulent, being pushed and pulled in every direction.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
- 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
turbulence = irregular wind
turbulence = rough winds
turbulence = rough waters (figuratively)
turbulent = rough
turbulence = rough water
turbulent = disorderly
turbulent = disturbing
turbulence = irregular wind (causing sudden jerks)
turbulence = irregular winds
turbulent = rough
turbulent = rough (disturbed)
turbulence = irregular movement through air
turbulence = rough wind
turbulent = rough
turbulence = rough winds
turbulent = disorderly
turbulent = a state of disturbance and disorder
turbulent = rough (rapid and irregular flow) (or disturbed and disordered)
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