Sample Sentences for
turmoil
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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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    We're so fortunate here, away from the turmoil.†  (source)
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    Running was joyless, but Louie had no other answer to his internal turmoil.†  (source)
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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)
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    His uncle's grinding jaw betrayed his inner turmoil.†  (source)
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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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    Through the turmoil inside me, I realized it was important for the other man to believe him.†  (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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    I had not been fully aware of how deeply the turmoil at school was affecting me.†  (source)
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    Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!†  (source)
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    The turmoil comes and if I'm not where I can unravel it, the thing will run wild.†  (source)
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