Sample Sentences for
turbulent
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    With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon.  (source)
    turbulent = rough (disturbed)
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    She stared back toward Second Avenue, her dark eyes turbulent.  (source)
    turbulent = disturbed
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    My beginning was extremely turbulent, being pushed and pulled in every direction.  (source)
    turbulent = a state of disturbance and disorder
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    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.  (source)
    turbulent = irregular
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    The plane lurched again, hit more turbulence, and Brian felt the nose drop.  (source)
    turbulence = rough wind
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    The strain broken now, they jabbered turbulently.†  (source)
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    Hence, too, must flow those tears which a widow sometimes so plentifully sheds over the ashes of a husband with whom she led a life of constant disquiet and turbulency, and whom now she can never hope to torment any more.†  (source)
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    I wondered how Richard was navigating the turbulent waters between his normal wife and his abnormal parents.  (source)
    turbulent = rough
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    Wind whipped through the wide hole; any one of them could go tumbling to their death if they hit turbulence.  (source)
    turbulence = rough winds
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    The first one fell in the yard, exactly where he had aimed, and then the rest of the bombs from his own plane and from the other planes in his flight burst open on the ground in a charge of rapid orange flashes across the tops of the buildings, which collapsed instantly in a vast, churning wave of pink and gray and coal-black smoke that went rolling out turbulently in all directions and quaked convulsively in its bowels as though from great blasts of red and white and golden sheet lightning.†  (source)
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    But Nikki's hands were full with her own turbulent high school experience, which was about to come to a close.  (source)
    turbulent = disorderly
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    The jolts and rattles of turbulence grow sharper.  (source)
    turbulence = irregular wind
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    The remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and faces hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them.†  (source)
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