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UK
/tˈɜːbjʊlənt/
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[ US /ˈtɝbjəɫənt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝbjəɫənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive
riotous times
these troubled areas
a turbulent and unruly childhood
the tumultuous years of his administration -
(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
the river's roiling current
turbulent rapids
How To Use turbulent In A Sentence
- Worse, as the streams bend to equalize pressure behind the foil, and may set up a turbulent gyre further slowing the foil by induced drag.
- Of course, he does this not through imagery alone but through turning the paint itself into a kind of turbulent human clay.
- Evidence of the region's turbulent history is everywhere.
- Interestingly, for all Rauch's fractious subject matter, his painterly touch isn't turbulent at all, but instead measured, calm and neat.
- We have Elizabeth and David, a couple who have been together for 20 turbulent years.
- The President noted that the FYROM is a model of stability in a very turbulent region of the world -- the FYROM being the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
- These were beautiful altocumulus castellanus, and their puffy towers gave warning of a turbulent atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
- Jimmy took off and flew all the way through turbulent air to land at Newark at 3: 51 pm.
- All princes had to face the problems posed by distant and turbulent borderlands.
- This excellent record of his thoughtful and troubled career as architect, restorer, scholar, and writer throws much light on a neglected and turbulent period of Victorian architecture.
