Example sentences for: turbulent

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

  • Book -- Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career , by George Plimpton;

  • And by the way, The Man can't bust our music, but it turns out that he can repackage it as an NBC mini-series, The '60s . At last, someone has collected all the turbulent decade clichés in one convenient 37 hour package.

  • The strategic importance of its location has given rise to a long and turbulent history.

  • More generally, conspiracism (as Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes calls it) flourishes during turbulent times--revolutions in particular--when long-established orders seem imperiled by uncontrollable events, endangered powers imagine secret plots to undermine them, and the dispossessed worry about persecution.

  • The bridge requires continual maintenance because storms, hurricanes, high winds, and heavy seas take a constant toll; in turbulent weather the Atlantic rises in great waves pushing towards the still, calm Caribbean.


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