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[ UK /tˈɜːbjʊlənt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝbjəɫənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. (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.
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