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[ UK /tˈɜːmɔ‍ɪl/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝˌmɔɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. disturbance usually in protest
  2. a violent disturbance
    the convulsions of the stock market
  3. violent agitation

How To Use turmoil In A Sentence

  • The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
  • At first sight, the economy hit the August turmoil in fine fettle.
  • With the current turmoil in the US economy one wonders if people will be quite so free with their money on luxuries this year.
  • His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
  • Was this the beginning of a turnaround for a career that has stalled on the back of personal turmoil and a technique that has deserted him? Times, Sunday Times
  • Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
  • Gold futures turned positive Wednesday, bucking the second day of sliding commodities, as it reassumed its safe-haven identity amid turmoil in Europe. Gold Swoons, Then Rises on Risk Worries
  • The voters may see the implications of global turmoil through a glass darkly. Times, Sunday Times
  • Voters would be deeply unimpressed by leadership turmoil during an economic crisis. Times, Sunday Times
  • But if restrictions off the field of play are irksome it's nothing compared to the turmoil he's going through on the pitch these days.
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