turmoilin a sentence
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The sudden political scandal threw the nation into turmoil.turmoil = a state of confusion, disturbance, or disorder
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Her emotions were in turmoil after the difficult news.
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They all put the turmoil behind them as best they could and carried on with their lives. (source)turmoil = disturbance
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His age was beginning to show, his one sign of inner turmoil, the strong line of his jaw melted a little, one became aware of telltale creases forming under his ears, one noticed not his jet-black hair but the gray patches growing at his temples. (source)turmoil = agitation (being disturbed or upset)
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There were further angry demonstrations, Goldstein was burned in effigy, hundreds of copies of the poster of the Eurasian soldier were torn down and added to the flames, and a number of shops were looted in the turmoil; then a rumor flew round that spies were directing the rocket bombs by means of wireless waves, and an old couple who were suspected of being of foreign extraction had their house set on fire and perished of suffocation. (source)turmoil = violent disturbance
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Running was joyless, but Louie had no other answer to his internal turmoil.† (source)turmoil = disorder
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His uncle's grinding jaw betrayed his inner turmoil.† (source)turmoil = disorder
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Few had survived the turmoils of the Elder Days; but when the Kings returned again over the Great Sea they had found the Bree-men still there, and they were still there now, when the memory of the old Kings had faded into the grass.† (source)
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It was Dante's wind, bearing lost lovers and cranes: Sabbathless Satan, toiling and turmoiling.† (source)turmoiling = creating confusion, disturbance, or disorder
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But when you have a country in turmoil, say a country like Afghanistan, government offices are busy with emergencies, and processing adoptions won't be a top priority.† (source)turmoil = disorder
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He told us that Authority had guarded this sacred trust more than a century, while governments fell and new governments rose, alliances shifted and shifted again—indeed, Authority was older than Federated Nations, deriving original charter from an older international body, and so well had it kept that trust that it had lasted through wars and turmoils and realignments.† (source)
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"On the possibility of social turmoil," said Father, in his reprimanding tone that meant she was not to say any more.† (source)
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Still, there was great uncertainty which of these vocations the youth was best endowed to fill; but, having no other employment, the stripling was constantly lounging about the homestead," munching green apples and hunting for sorrel; when the same sagacious eye that had brought to light his latent talents seized upon this circumstance as a clew to his future path through the turmoils of the world.† (source)
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Even worse, with the turmoil in Iran, the value of my father's pension dropped to the point of worthlessness.† (source)
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THE MAN WHO SITS DOWN AND SEARCHES HIMSELF for his answer to the question "What Do I Believe?" is either going to write a book or a few well-chosen thoughts on what he thinks it might be healthy for mankind to be thinking about in the present tribulations and turmoils.† (source)
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But every period has its virtues, even a time of turmoil.... When Emile Zhukovsky was lured to the Metropol as chef de cuisine in 1912, he was given command of a seasoned staff and a sizable kitchen.† (source)
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