Example sentences for: tempest

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

  • Shakespeare knew of primroses ( Cymbeline ), cowslips ( The Tempest ), and oxlips ( The Winter's Tale ), and presumably the difference between them although there seems to be no way of knowing which oxlip he meant.

  • Despite its air of implausibility and apparent unreality, this issue is more than just a tempest in a teepee or a war over words.

  • The emphasis is on European ignorance, backed by engravings of fanciful New World monsters and references to Shakespeare's The Tempest , a play inspired by explorers' journals.

  • Television-- The Tempest (NBC);

  • This loose Civil War-era adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest is called "[a] miscalculation of epic proportions ...


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