Example sentences for: tempestuous

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

  • On the chapel’s altar wall is Michelangelo’s tempestuous Last Judgment, begun 23 years after the ceiling’s completion in 1512, when he was 60 and imbued with deep religious soul-searching.

  • In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici (1449–1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.

  • According to the WP , Jiang's closed-door congressional meeting had the same rather tempestuous atmosphere as did his press conference with Bill Clinton earlier in the week.

  • Their relationship was a tempestuous one.

  • As senior adviser to the president during a tempestuous first term, however, Stephanopoulos can provide insights and behind-the-scenes anecdotes that many readers will find interesting, even if he didn't see naked interns running up and down the West Wing.


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