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 economic times
a turbulent and unruly childhood
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)

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

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

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)

For two hours his mind roiled with turbulent thoughts before he fell into a restless, tortured sleep.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

turbulent = disturbed and disordered

turbulence = roughness (sudden jerks from irregular air flow)

she admires him, as though ... his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings within him,
Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman

turbulent = stormy (in a state of disturbance)

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

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

turbulent = disturbed

During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

turbulent = irregular

...I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

turbulence = roughness

A steamboat had never yet stemmed its turbulent current.
Irving, Washington -- Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
There came a turbulent stream of men across the fields.
Crane, Stephen -- The Red Badge of Courage
It was not yet quite midwinter, and the turbulent Fifty Mile River vindicated his judgment.
London, Jack -- Burning Daylight
This person, a sailor, of turbulent character, and whom I suspected of Bonapartism, has been secretly to the Island of Elba.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
...the King, who seemed very unfit to rule his turbulent subjects...
Baum, L. Frank -- The Emerald City of Oz

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