Example sentences for: tempest

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

  • 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.

  • In Act II, Scene 1, of The Tempest , Sebastian blurts out, Ha, ha, ha!

  • The association of lime and bones is not accidental: Limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) is nothing but the fossilized skeletons of tiny sea animals, and calcium is the principal ingredient of bone; when Shakespeare wrote, in The Tempest , that Of his bones are coral made, he stated a truer fact of nature than he may have known.

  • Television-- The Tempest (NBC);

  • So Melville wrote Moby-Dick (1851) and John Buchan's autobiography was called Memory Hold-the-Door (1940), but Robertson Davies wrote Tempest Tost (1951), with no hyphen.


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