Example sentences for: roiling

How can you use “roiling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hero, Ashitaka, a warrior from the isolationist Emishi clan, is forced in the first scene to kill a marauding boar--a god turned into a demon (covered in roiling, corrosive worms) by an iron ball lodged in its body.

  • Critics term it "a silly, roiling melange of special effects and overheated religious symbolism" that is at heart a "half-baked anticlerical screed" with "lots of broken glass, bird feathers, dripping blood and desperately fancy camera angles" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit a fan page devoted to the film.)

  • In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.

  • Every night, a roiling marathon of travel dreams has played inside my head.

  • A surfing analyst shared the inside scoop with his clients, thereby roiling the financial markets for a few hours.


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