Example sentences for: roiling

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

  • Stop off to look down into the sheer limestone gorge at the roiling waters, sudden cascades, and tranquil pools.

  • To the extent that a president can and should keep the drug issue at a roiling boil in society at large, President Clinton has not done so.

  • 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.)

  • The visuals--a sleepy coastline that, gradually leached of color, tightens into a jaundiced, roiling froth--offer third-party verification via superimposed newspaper clips.

  • Before you know it, she's roiling with doubt and heartbreakingly vulnerable, and this slick thriller romance becomes more than an ultracivilized game.


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