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  • For two hours his mind roiled with turbulent thoughts before he fell into a restless, tortured sleep.   (source)
    turbulent = disturbed and disordered
  • With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon.   (source)
    turbulent = rough (disturbed)
  • My beginning was extremely turbulent, being pushed and pulled in every direction.   (source)
    turbulent = a state of disturbance and disorder
  • 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.   (source)
    turbulent = disorderly
  • [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.   (source)
    turbulence = rough winds
  • I was researching how fish swim in turbulent flow and discovered that they could surf on swirling eddies without using much muscle.   (source)
    turbulent = rough (rapid and irregular flow) (or disturbed and disordered)
  • I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.   (source)
    turbulent = disturbing
  • 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.   (source)
    turbulent = rough
  • Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order.†   (source)
  • A squiggle of turbulence, or a crewman walking inside the fuselage, would tip the plane off its axis.†   (source)
  • For example, anything to do with turbulence.†   (source)
  • His body was exhausted but his mind was wide awake, buzzing with the day's turbulence.†   (source)
  • The main bus soon turned into a turbulent river.†   (source)
  • Every spot of turbulence was scarier than a Greek monster.†   (source)
  • Full of fresh determination, he urged his broom through the turbulent air, staring in every direction for the Snitch, avoiding a Bludger, ducking beneath Diggory, who was streaking in the opposite direction.... There was another clap of thunder, followed immediately by forked lightning.†   (source)
  • Werner has been reading the popular science magazines in the drugstore; he's interested in wave turbulence, tunnels to the center of the earth, the Nigerian method of relaying news over distances with drums.†   (source)
  • If you think turbulence is rough in a jetliner going 720 kph, just imagine what it's like at 28,000 kph.†   (source)
  • He was a motion study in energy and turbulence, never looking right or left or acknowledging the presence of other people on the street, except on one occasion that she vividly recalled.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Shigemura was pleased and claimed that the turbulence of her ego was in the process of being overcome.†   (source)
  • Often the shooter will have a turbulent relationship with his parents, or will have parents who accept pathological behavior.†   (source)
  • It was four in the morning before my body could finally endure no more, and despite the turbulence in my brain, I slept— —and dreamed I was running along the beach.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to see because the roiling surface had yet to recover its tranquillity, and the turbulence was driven by the lingering spirit of her fury.†   (source)
  • With eight siblings, it had been turbulent growing up, and when she converted to Islam, the battles and misunderstandings multiplied.†   (source)
  • Their sexuality was not a constant torment to them, not a cloud of turbulent hormones: they came into heat at regular intervals, as did most mammals other than man.†   (source)
  • An Yi had been sent away to spend the summer with her grandparents in Shandong, away from Shanghai's turbulence.†   (source)
  • His face was pulled taut, his eyes turbulent.†   (source)
  • Like a fashion drawing come to life, she turned heads wherever she went, gliding along obliviously without appearing to notice the turbulence she created in her wake; her eyes were spaced far apart, her ears were small, high-set, and very close to her head, and her body was long-waisted and thin, like an elegant weasel's.†   (source)
  • I also understood, due to the death of my father when I was a teenager and the turbulent times my family experienced afterward, what it is like to struggle economically.†   (source)
  • Turbulence buffeted him, snatching the breath out of his mouth.†   (source)
  • During those first turbulent days when he was learning about the past and their present situation from his parents, Adam realized, almost guiltily, that a kind of adventure had taken hold of his life.†   (source)
  • They lifted the huge burden of communication with the public from both Nan and Mack and seemed to be everywhere as they skillfully wove some threads of peace into the turbulence of emotions.†   (source)
  • Then I saw it: a thin line of yellow rippling in the turbulence like a cloth banner in a hurricane.†   (source)
  • The Chicago Tribune reported that increasing turbulence in global markets had raised concerns in London that a recession, even a full-blown "panic," could be in the offing.†   (source)
  • Law less ness!" declared the Reverend, waving an arm impressively toward Babylon as if that turbulent locale lurked just behind the school latrine.†   (source)
  • Those three years began to seem like a turbulent nightmare.†   (source)
  • That's what I thought," he said, his face going calm again, but for the turbulent light in his eyes.†   (source)
  • The ride became airliner smooth as they escaped the lower turbulence.†   (source)
  • Mystery gases continuously slide off of it, like teaspoons of milk dropped into turbulent water.†   (source)
  • I had been warned about turbulence, but the trip was happily uneventful.†   (source)
  • The incident, of course, gave them the opportunity to evoke many other trivial quarrels from many other dim and turbulent dawns.†   (source)
  • They signaled the dividing line between the turbulence of the town and its sins and the quiet peace of the hills of the llano.†   (source)
  • Q: Will I encounter turbulence?†   (source)
  • The danger is lack of visibility, turbulence, clogged intakes.†   (source)
  • After the turbulence and drama of the protest, the city streets seemed flat, bleached of color, ominously ordinary.†   (source)
  • Barring mechanical failures, turbulent weather and terrorist acts, Tweedy said, an aircraft traveling at the speed of sound may be the last refuge of gracious living and civilized manners known to man.†   (source)
  • Instead of responding, Lexie took a long breath, trying to settle her turbulent emotions.†   (source)
  • To him the distant mountains were like comforting walls, protecting all he held dear from the turbulence beyond.†   (source)
  • She and her sisters have led such turbulent lives-so many husbands, homes, jobs, wrong turns among them.†   (source)
  • Questions from all these papers, questions referring to turbulence in the past, are an unnecessary upheaval in the delicate ecology of this numb day.†   (source)
  • IT WAS IN THE COMMONS that the longer, more turbulent conflict ensued.†   (source)
  • She'd often felt nervous in Haiti in the turbulent years after Duvalier was thrown out.†   (source)
  • She stamped her foot and raised her arm in a turbulent gesture that made Yossarian fear she was going to crack him in the face again with her great pocketbook.†   (source)
  • In the winter of 1961 the world outside the White House is turbulent.†   (source)
  • South of Rivendell they rose ever higher, and bent westwards; and about the feet of the main range there was tumbled an ever wider land of bleak hills, and deep valleys filled with turbulent waters.†   (source)
  • The confiscators were often deputies sworn in hastily during the turbulent days right after Pearl Harbor, and these men seemed to be acting out the general panic, seeing sinister possibilities in the most ordinary household items: flashlights, kitchen knives, cameras, lanterns, toy swords.†   (source)
  • The young men were forced to make their descent as the huge transports bobbed and yawed in the turbulent waves.†   (source)
  • This foaming, turbulent waterspout was the birthplace of the Braldu River.†   (source)
  • There's supposed to be turbulence when we enter Earth's atmosphere.†   (source)
  • The boat carried her across the turbulent water to where she was met by several of her own officers and the officers, ministers, and queen of Eddis.†   (source)
  • Just as the water closed peacefully over the turbulence of Chicken Little's body, so had contentment washed over her enjoyment.†   (source)
  • The economy class section of Air France's Caravelle to Zurich was filled to capacity, the narrow seats made more uncomfortable by the turbulence that buffeted the plane.†   (source)
  • For a time, after the turbulent detour on the country road in Idaho, Bryan and Shade worked side by side in relative harmony.†   (source)
  • But he had his own problems at the moment, the biggest of which was standing across the room, watching him with turbulent eyes.†   (source)
  • That might cause a bit of turbulence.†   (source)
  • They whistled past the mouths of the guns, in turbulent eddies that turned the gun barrels into otherworldly flutes.†   (source)
  • The river which they had been following here joined a broader river, wide and turbulent, which flowed from their left to their right, towards the east.†   (source)
  • The turbulence brakes of the second shell bit in and the ride got rough ....and still rougher as they burned off one at a time and the second shell began to go to pieces.†   (source)
  • The fearsome turbulence increased.†   (source)
  • What appears almost certain is that the decisions to prosecute and ultimately convict Socrates had a lot to do with the turbulent history of Athens in the several years preceding his trial.†   (source)
  • Galbart Glover and two of his bolder men had tried swimming their mounts across the turbulent Blue Fork at Ramsford.†   (source)
  • We follow pretty simple business practices and we've stuck to them, even in turbulent times.†   (source)
  • Still — while Old Chao worked on turbulence, Ralph lectured on about all that had been exciting and important and new in the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • It was the first time I remember having the dream of floating down the turbulent river toward the waterfall.†   (source)
  • It was during the turbulent 1960s, when people my age questioned everything about the government and society in general.†   (source)
  • Therefore, pure democracies are always turbulent.†   (source)
  • You'd get ...turbulence.†   (source)
  • Turbulence was an ultra-secret NSA computer surveillance program that constantly swept the Internet for militant Web sites and jihadist chat rooms.†   (source)
  • Both ofus were unassailable proof that each of the tribes of Europe had imported their own separate fevers, predilections, and reveries into the capricious, turbulent consciousness of America.†   (source)
  • A sea of turbulent light appeared overhead, and three times spilled streams that rode crazy crescendo down to splash upon the stone fang curving blackly into the wind, about a quarter mile up the slope.†   (source)
  • His voice, though restrained, was, I felt, charged with turbulent emotion.†   (source)
  • The room silent and comfortable, haunted by no turbulence but the breath of his nostrils and the nostrils of his wife.†   (source)
  • But Benton's turbulent tour could not stem a tide much greater than any one man or single state.†   (source)
  • The hatred subsided into the turbulence to be replaced by a wave of hot desire.†   (source)
  • But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.   (source)
    turbulent = disturbed
  • ...I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.   (source)
    turbulence = roughness
  • 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.   (source)
    turbulent = rough
  • Turbulent events are described by nonlinear equations.†   (source)
  • Turbulence produces alternation—it's a signature.†   (source)
  • But if you open it a little more, so that there's a bit of turbulence in the flow, then you'll get alternating large and small drops.†   (source)
  • The plane jostled across some turbulence, and Langdon felt a surge of danger.†   (source)
  • Despite this turbulence there is no wind, and the air is piercingly clear.†   (source)
  • Just moving around makes enough turbulence to send the smoke everywhere.†   (source)
  • The nearest pontoon isn't there anymore, just a bloody, turbulent soup of splinters and chaff.†   (source)
  • The Duke scowled, busied himself with the controls as they came into turbulent air over the crawler.†   (source)
  • The turbulent waves over the motherboard settled into light ripples.†   (source)
  • He spoke of the war and the nightmares, and came home feeling as turbulent as when he'd left.†   (source)
  • Langdon followed her gaze into the turbulent water but saw nothing at all.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help laughing aloud in delight at this glorious turbulence.†   (source)
  • It's bluer, bigger, more turbulent than I'd imagined.†   (source)
  • He felt dust fronts, billowings, mixings of turbulence, an occasional vortex.†   (source)
  • Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.†   (source)
  • And now, there appeared to be turbulence in the sand around the factory.†   (source)
  • Riding a cyclone to the bottom of the ocean definitely gave him some unexpected turbulence.†   (source)
  • The turbulent water was filled with debris, enough to knock anyone unconscious.†   (source)
  • The Lone Plainsman had signed on to a turbulent life.†   (source)
  • It is a spot of tranquility and love in a turbulent world.†   (source)
  • Those were turbulent times in the Far East.†   (source)
  • Saphira wobbled as turbulence buffeted them.†   (source)
  • The great cloud, beyond its turbulent core, was silver-tipped in the spotlights.†   (source)
  • To prove their points, they cite the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy.†   (source)
  • Steady turbulence announced they had left the land and were over the waters of the Arabian Sea.†   (source)
  • In turbulent, dangerous times he had held to a remarkably steady course.†   (source)
  • It made Percy feel silly for being scared of airplane turbulence.†   (source)
  • It was a quick, easy flight, and his villa there on the turbulent west coast was always prepared.†   (source)
  • Navigating Turbulent Waters JIMMY LIAO I BELIEVE IN USING THE TURBULENCE IN my life.†   (source)
  • 'The weather reports on your radio say there's no turbulence anticipated—' 'That is above?†   (source)
  • It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.†   (source)
  • A turbulent faction in a State may think it can make deals with friends in the State government.†   (source)
  • Don't be alarmed at the late turbulence in New England," Adams counseled Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Navigating Turbulent Waters JIMMY LIAO I BELIEVE IN USING THE TURBULENCE IN my life.†   (source)
  • Another bump of turbulence made him grab his seat.†   (source)
  • Immediately thereafter, there was greater turbulence.†   (source)
  • A ten-day recess followed, ten turbulent days to change votes on the remaining Articles.†   (source)
  • In the distance over the burning building a cloud rose in dingy turbulence but I saw no flame.†   (source)
  • He was sitting all alone in the enormous cabin of a Falcon 2000EX corporate jet as it bounced its way through turbulence.†   (source)
  • And while she might be crazy, was she so different in her evaluation of his work from the hundreds of thousands of other people across the country , ninety percent of them women , who could barely wait for each new five-hundred, page episode in the turbulent life of the foundling who I risen to marry a peer of the realm?†   (source)
  • As he sat on the stump, Eragon found that his turbulent thoughts and emotions prevented him from mustering the concentration to open his mind and sense the creatures in the hollow.†   (source)
  • But old Dodgy Doge can get off his high hippogriff, because I've had access to a source most journalists would swap their wands for, one who has never spoken in public before and who was close to Dumbledore during the most turbulent and disturbing phase of his youth.†   (source)
  • Every bump of turbulence jolted me so badly I felt nostalgic for our old friend Stanley, the canyon-diving eight-legged flying horse.†   (source)
  • Finally, with a great sloshing noise, the ship emerged entirely, bobbing on the turbulent water, and began to glide toward the bank.†   (source)
  • He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots, pans, tongs, and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge, and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquiades' magical irons.†   (source)
  • In the midst of this intensifying financial turbulence, on October 30 the exposition board appointed Burnham chief of construction, with a salary equivalent to $360,000; Burnham in turn made Root the fair's supervising architect and Olmsted its supervising landscape architect.†   (source)
  • When the waters became turbulent, we carried you in the floating Ark, that We might make it a Reminder for you, and attentive ears would hold onto it.†   (source)
  • His eyes were turbulent.†   (source)
  • On the eighth day, the boat navigated with great difficulty through a turbulent strait squeezed between marble cliffs, and after lunch it anchored in Puerto Nare.†   (source)
  • Then he was past us, climbing for air, while Siri and I reeled from his turbulent wake and the high tones of his shout.†   (source)
  • A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.†   (source)
  • Aside from a bone-crushing acceleration during take off, the plane's motion had been fairly typical-occasional minor turbulence, a few pressure changes as they'd climbed, but nothing at all to suggest they had been hurtling through space at the mind-numbing speed of 11,000 miles per hour.†   (source)
  • It seemed to rise with the turbulent brown river swollen by the April rains, and in the evenings lay across the blacked-out city like a mental dusk which the whole country could sense, a quiet and malign thickening, inseparable from the cool late spring, well concealed within its spreading beneficence.†   (source)
  • He'd been stone-cold sober since entering the hospital, and reading a lot more about chaos theory, particularly about the work of Mitchell Feigenbaum, a physicist at Los Alamos who had made a study of the transition between order and turbulence.†   (source)
  • The ice near the waterfall was apparently thin on account of the turbulent water, and Andros had broken directly through it.†   (source)
  • The turbulence tapered off and eventually fell to nothing as the atmosphere became thinner and thinner.†   (source)
  • Navigating the nine-inch-wide bomb bay catwalk could be difficult, especially in turbulence; one slip and you'd tumble into the bay, which was fitted with fragile aluminum doors that would tear away with the weight of a falling man.†   (source)
  • One stroke of his wide fluke kicked up a turbulence strong enough to convince me of the animal's power.†   (source)
  • It plows into the Street fifty feet in front of him, disintegrates, and explodes, blooming into a tangled cloud of wreckage and flame that skids across the pavement toward him, growing to envelop him so that all he can see is turbulent flame, perfectly simulated and rendered.†   (source)
  • Still, when the clocks struck twelve and many of the guests were already having an aperitif outdoors, a single crash of thunder made the earth tremble, and a turbulent wind from the sea knocked over the tables and blew down the canopies, and the sky collapsed in a catastrophic downpour.†   (source)
  • In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentino Ariza had asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked.†   (source)
  • He waited out another turbulence.†   (source)
  • The odor of the place assailed him: unwashed bodies, distillate esters of reclaimed wastes, everywhere the sour effluvia of humanity with, over it all, a turbulence of spice and spicelike harmonics.†   (source)
  • The slice of sky they could see had itself assumed a turbulent, gothic gray above them as warm and cold currents met and warred.†   (source)
  • The turbulent winds of the helicopter's blades were dispersing the fog, tearing it to shreds, as if the fog had been a massive cotton blanket.†   (source)
  • I responded by turning the damn thing off and looked around at the men in the cabin, which seemed ready to break apart in the turbulence.†   (source)
  • Every time the plane hit a spot of turbulence, Percy's heart raced, and he was sure Jupiter was slapping them around.†   (source)
  • I scanned both banks—no sign of them—but the water was more turbulent where they'd been standing, as if someone had stirred it with a giant spoon.†   (source)
  • "Faster!" he shouted to the men poling the barge, as a turbulent mass of water emerged from within the folds of mist and hurtled down the canal.†   (source)
  • Jason insisted he was well enough to take sentry duty, along with Coach Hedge, who was still so charged with adrenaline that every time the ship hit turbulence, he swung his bat and yelled, "Die!"†   (source)
  • For if we can remove the turbulent Gallics, our people according to exactest computations, will in another century, become more numerous than England itself.†   (source)
  • The turbulence within the ranks had diminished substantially, and he guessed that it would not be long before the horns signaled the Varden to advance.†   (source)
  • More turbulence.†   (source)
  • On the short low bridge, John St. Jacques maneuvered the drug boat through the dangerous reefs he knew by summoned memory, aided by the powerful searchlight that lit up the turbulent waters, now twenty, now two hundred feet in front of the bow.†   (source)
  • They could follow him because in their utter weightlessness they could feel the turbulence of his strokes, and, sometimes, when they were near the surface, they could see the moonlight flash against his feet.†   (source)
  • Minutes passed like hours before he finally recognized himself as the source of the turbulent roar that was overwhelming him.†   (source)
  • They see their boy and girl tossed into the normal awkward growing up stage, but can offer little assistance or direction in their turbulent course ...." with Shoji Katayama as George McIntyre, Takudo Ando as Terry McIntyre, and Mrs. McIntyre played by Kazuko Nagai.†   (source)
  • Not long ago Westwood Village had been an island of quaint charm in the more turbulent sea of the city around it, a mecca for shoppers and theatergoers.†   (source)
  • "Turbulence," said Carter.†   (source)
  • So much he knew about water, about its freezing, its surface tension, its turbulence and flow; he once explained to her about eddies, and how they broke away in certain alternating patterns as they drifted downstream.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy will soon be forced to use every bit of these hard-won presidential skills to manage turbulent times.†   (source)
  • Across the turbulent waters, Catelyn could see several thousand men encamped around the eastern castle, their banners hanging like so many drowned cats from the lances outside their tents.†   (source)
  • It looks like we'll be experiencing some minor turbulence as we make our descent into Dallas, so I'm going to ask the flight attendants—" Boom!†   (source)
  • And traveling across America, through the turbulence the attacks had left behind, Mortenson had certainly overcome his shyness and done his share of talking.†   (source)
  • Depends on weather, turbulence, unexpected traffic, holding patterns because of airport problems at the destination...†   (source)
  • Just sitting on her back as she fought against the turbulence was tiring, while for Saphira herself, it was a miserable, frustrating struggle made all the more difficult by knowing that it was far from over and that she had no choice but to continue on.†   (source)
  • Today the subject is the rough waters and turbulent swells being navigated by the president of the United States.†   (source)
  • In your words, Mr Undersecretary, the People's Republic is a suspicious turbulent nation — and if I may add a few of my own from those accomplishments you ascribe to me — a government quick to become paranoid, obsessed with betrayal both from within and without.†   (source)
  • Huge turbulence.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Now I could take the energy of my father's violence and move through it, to surge past that turbulence.†   (source)
  • During turbulent and factious times, a majority might deny a specific group of people the fundamental right of freedom—suffrage.†   (source)
  • Every mile that Trailways 5121 travels past the pine thickets and swampland of the Texas coastal highway puts Lee Harvey Oswald one mile farther away from the shackles of his turbulent and bitter marriage.†   (source)
  • All at once he realized — though the writhing turbulence beneath him had not diminished one whit — that she was no longer grappling with him, recognized with a quiver that she was not fighting him but heaving her pelvis up against him remorselessly in the primal, powerful, rhapsodic instinctual rhythm of erotic ardor and abandonment.†   (source)
  • The "turbulent maneuvers" of factions, he now wrote privately, could "tie the hands and destroy the influence" of every honest man with a desire to serve the public good.†   (source)
  • However, when we compare them to other short-lived and turbulent ancient republics, they prove that an institution that blends stability and liberty is necessary.†   (source)
  • Turbulence is not far away.†   (source)
  • We have been told that our struggle has loosened the bands of government everywhere; that children and apprentices were disobedient; that schools and colleges were grown turbulent; that Indians slighted their guardians and Negroes grew insolent to their masters.†   (source)
  • It has frozen the ink in my pen, and chilled the blood in my veins, but not the warmth of my affection for him for whom my heart beats with unabated ardor through all the changes and vicissitudes of life, in the still calm of Peacefield, and the turbulent scenes in which he is about to engage.†   (source)
  • flippancies and modern crudities...Always great, and though sometimes alone, all weak and personal motives were forgotten in public energy and the security of the sacred liberties of his country...Deeply versed in legal lore, profoundly skilled in political science; joined to the advantage of forty years' unceasing engagement in the turbulent and triumphant scenes, both at home and in Europe, which have marked our history; learned in the language and arts of diplomacy; more conversant with the views, jealousies, resources, and intrigues of Great Britain, France and Holland than any other American; alike aloof to flattery and vulgar ambition, as above all undue control [he has as†   (source)
  • But the 1960s and the turbulence of social change and the ominous presence of the unholy Asian war killed my dreams of flight and soldierdom.†   (source)
  • None of us had spoken since we had left Molligen; all of uswere lost in our own private, turbulent thoughts about that evening and what it implied about the future.†   (source)
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