tumult

How To Use tumult In A Sentence

• Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
• The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
• Rimna held his hands up for silence, not even trying to speak over the tumultuous noise.
• In 1941 and 1942-by the sun and a blue sea that she sometimes seems literally to be drawing with, far from her family and the tumult of Berlin, humming as she worked - she painted 1,325 gouaches.
• In this delegation of authority, the two principal factions which divided the tumultuary army had each taken care to send three of their own number. Old Mortality
• The state defines unlawful assembly as a threat of ‘tumultuous disturbance of the peace.’
• After a tumultuous turn of events, the general cast of the show is nailed down as the three end up shipless on one of the large continents.
• Meanwhile many crowded to the spot, especially followers of Conrade and officers of the Stradiots, who, as they saw their leader lie gazing wildly on the sky, raised him up amid a tumultuary cry of “Cut the slave and his hound to pieces!” The Talisman
• Ford responded by shouting back in what sounded like Latin and slowly, but noticeably, the tumult in the apartment decreased.
• It's been a tumultuous day at the international trade negotiations in Brussels.