Example sentences for: roiling

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

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

  • Scientists are now convinced that a vast internal ocean is, or was recently, roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.

  • "The central question," wrote Times correspondent Nicholas D. Kristof in his Hong Kong dispatch, "is whether Hong Kong amounts to a colossal Trojan horse: a prize so glorious that China's Communists cannot leave it outside the gates but which, once inside, will destroy those in power" with its irrepressible example of roiling capitalism and affluence, and its concentrated economic power.

  • 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 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.


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