How to Use tempest in a Sentence

tempest

noun
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  • But there is no chart to help map a course through the tempest of war.
    — Marc Santora Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • A few miles away, amidst the tempest, my wife sat on the front porch of her sister's new home.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Shows of every hue now engage the tempest of Trump's reach and rule.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The threat of the coronavirus hit the economy like a tempest out of nowhere.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2020
  • In the heaving seas of the Southern Ocean, a small, red-hulled sailboat tossed and rolled, at the mercy of the tail end of a tempest.
    — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The sky was a churning, cold tempest; my glasses useless in the hazy mist.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The overhaul of the previous rules, which were blown away in the tempest, began eight years ago.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • In each of these tempests, hundreds, even thousands, of lives were lost.
    — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The event was triggered by a ferocious storm, but the tempest wasn’t of Earth’s making.
    — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But when the sprinkle transformed into a tempest, most of the crowd headed home.
    — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 24 July 2017
  • At the south pole, five storms formed a pentagon around a central tempest.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In the midst of these tempests, seven months after leaving England, scurvy swept through the fleet.
    — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • When a sudden tempest rolls in and Prince’s Eric’s ship catches fire, the crew is quick to evacuate to the lifeboat.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 28 May 2023
  • If all this research seems like a tempest in a teacup (or a dust-up in a demi-tasse?) well, coffee is a high-stakes game.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
  • In France, the dream is still of the voyage out, sails unfurled, on a roiling wave amid a permanent tempest.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Up there, that twin-cell tempest warps these field lines, pulling them through the upper atmosphere.
    — Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The storms are categorized by the strength of their winds, although the wind itself often isn't the most deadly part of the tempest.
    — Nasa Earth Observatory, National Geographic, 7 July 2016
  • But the sultry chemistry between them on this crossover smash was the perfect tempest of their styles.
    — Ron Hart, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The whole thing was a tempest-in-a-tweetstorm that was also, as such squalls will sometimes be, revealing.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2018
  • There were tall trees, ninety-nine shades of green, this very observant child-woman with a dad who has a tempest in him.
    — Caryn James, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • In the tempest over the sentencing of the 12-year-old Gingerich, Lundy soon became an afterthought.
    — [email protected], Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2014
  • The storms are categorized by the strength of their winds, although the wind itself often isn't the deadliest part of the tempest.
    — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • While much of our planet’s air and seas are stirred at a tempest’s whim, some features are far more regular.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • This week’s tempest dropped snow by the foot from Pennsylvania to New England.
    — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Musk’s move, of course, stirred up a real social-media tempest.
    — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
  • Social media tempests are largely for the teapot-dwellers.
    — Hazlitt, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Tonight that riff comes out of the massive baritone sax of Clare Daly, the fairy godmother of saxophonists, who blows with the fury of a tempest.
    — Joshua David Stein, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2015
  • What followed was a media tempest, as Mr. Bragg was attacked for not having brought a case.
    — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • With more tempests on the horizon, the Ballona Creek trash collector’s first storm season is not yet over.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The only way to truly avoid the tempest of death is to stop climbing altogether.
    — Julie Ellison, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2017

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