Example sentences for: tempest

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

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

  • Television-- The Tempest (NBC);

  • Like the final scene of A Winter's Tale , or the last speech of The Tempest ? This standard for literary achievement would also discredit any work in the modernist tradition--for example Brecht's and Beckett's plays.

  • "It has come to this: the natural desire of a young woman for an aggressive, handsome and powerful middle-aged man and the reciprocal pleasure that such a man has in the flattering attention of a pretty young girl--these totally mutual and consensual instincts that are built into the human psyche, whether one likes it or not--have created a tempest in the United States that could lead to a constitutional crisis.

  • The Tempest


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