TURBULENCE in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for TURBULENCE, such as:

1. Their voices had a dusky turbulence.
2. Tony Blair's entering a turbulent week.
3. The turbulence caused the plane to turn over.
4. But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.
5. There came a turbulent stream of men across the fields.

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 Meanings and Examples of TURBULENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
turbulence
 n.  state of violent agitation; eddying motion; unstable flow of a liquid or gas; state of violent disturbance and disorder
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Their voices had a dusky turbulence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  They soon relinquish this turbulence though, and when about three-fourths grown, break up, and separately go about in quest of settlements, that is, harems.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
3  But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and excitement of so busy and important an evening.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
4  Everything was so quiet, and neat, and orderly; everybody so kind and gentle; that after the noise and turbulence in the midst of which he had always lived, it seemed like Heaven itself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  The turbulent voices, even Guy Pollock being connotative beside her, were nothing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  The Indians warily retraced their steps toward the place they had left, when the scout, placing his pole against a rock, by a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the turbulent stream.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
9  There came a turbulent stream of men across the fields.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  This person, a sailor, of turbulent character, and whom I suspected of Bonapartism, has been secretly to the Island of Elba.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries.
12  At last he made his way through the mob, which was continually increasing and getting more and more turbulent, and reached the hotel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
13  In a moment he restrained himself so powerfully that the tempestuous heaving of his breast subsided, as turbulent and foaming waves yield to the sun's genial influence when the cloud has passed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal.
14  I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  The era was characterized by political and cultural turbulence.
2  The turbulence caused the plane to turn over.
3  They aim to protect assets rather than chase returns, so short-term turbulence has less of an effect.
4  Tony Blair's entering a turbulent week.
5  Not until this turbulent region can shuffle off the burdens of the past will it be able to settle peacefully into the community of nations.