(v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
(v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
(v. i.) To wander; to roam.
(v. i.) To romp.
Example Sentences:
(1) The self-described billionaire launched his campaign by referring to Mexicans as “rapists” and “killers”, the first in a series of controversial remarks that have roiled the GOP primary.
(2) Within six months, any stop, search or arrest by a police officer in the city – roiled by unrest in 2014 after the fatal shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown – must be captured on camera, according to the draft agreement with federal officials published on Wednesday.
(3) The issue may have roiled the political world this week, much as boasting of groping women overshadowed the previous debate, but what really distinguished the third and final television showdown of the reality TV election was the unusual amount of time both candidates devoted to attacking each other’s policies rather than each other.
(4) Or perhaps this latest ambush is just an excuse to resume the government’s internal warfare, which has been roiling away since January.
(5) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
(6) "Markets roiled" Bond traders continued to view Greek debt as hugely risky.
(7) Last month’s business sentiment was also weighed down by sharp declines in China’s stock market and a surprise currency devaluation that roiled markets worldwide and a devastating explosion in the busy port of Tianjin.
(8) The embarrassing event has the potential to torpedo the rest of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration and roil relations between the US and Mexico,” it said.
(9) The roiling is so surround sound it's hard to hear him.
(10) Following a month-long rout on Chinese stock markets, authorities devalued the yuan several times last week, roiling global equity markets and sparking fears of a currency war in which countries compete to boost exports by cutting the value of their currency.
(11) With the undocumented comprising as much as half of the uninsured population in Los Angeles, the issue has echoes of the roiling immigration debate.
(12) Leaders from Ferguson, Missouri , are to meet Department of Justice officials on Tuesday to discuss a federal review of their policing of the town, which was roiled by protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old last year.
(13) The new measures come as the White House tries to both ratchet up pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme and dissuade Israel from launching a unilateral strike on Iran, a move that could roil the Middle East and jolt the global economy.
(14) The decision not to indict Pantaleo touched off protests that roiled the streets in New York City and beyond and raised issues of police brutality, racial equity and the efficacy of grand juries.
(15) The historical memory of his presidential monuments has been consumed by fantasies of small-town life but it is a landscape of whitewashed buildings against the undulating emptiness, a country roiling with dreams.
(16) Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has taken advantage of the political turmoil roiling Yemen.
(17) Rather than reach out he retreats, and roils at the fickleness of everything – entreating media boosters to validate him, telling the colleagues they have no right to desert him, while pondering who he can jettison in order to save himself.
(18) I’m also proud that [CPS] has moved in the opposite direction of some of the more regressive legislation that’s been passed.” Controversy is roiling over transgender students and their rights in the nations’ schools, with some schools and even whole states taking steps to force students to use facilities in conflict with their gender identity.
(19) Modi was ostracised for his actions, or inactions, during the Godhra riots , sectarian violence that roiled across his state for a month in 2002 in which 1,000 or more people, largely Muslim, died.
(20) Opinionated butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, hacks, artists and pornographers, impresarios and charlatans were now the protagonists in a roiling landscape of new ideas and opportunities.
Seethe
Definition:
(n.) To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.
(v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(2) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
(3) "Park Chu-Young of South Korea has scored from a free-kick, against Nigeria," he quietly seethes.
(4) In 1961 there had been riots in Warmbaths, and all this time the Transkei had been a seething mass of unrest.
(5) Baltimore’s under-fire criminal justice system risked antagonising its already seething local community on Wednesday by suspending legal procedures and imposing bail bonds of up to half a million dollars on the city’s most impoverished residents.
(6) As central Manama once again seethed, troops and riot police were nowhere to be seen.
(7) We wouldn’t notice much difference between them and the current lot, and it would save all that boasting and seething reported in the same issue ( Bong!
(8) We have said you can’t waste a game now and that’s what we’ve done,” said a clearly seething Newcastle manager.
(9) Writing in the Observer under the headline "Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry" , Hunt seethes, "the government is using what should be a moment for national reflection and respectful debate to rewrite the historical record and sow political division."
(10) ITV news executives are privately seething about the BBC’s response to its revamped 10pm bulletin and have accused their rival of “arrogance”.
(11) Are there 250 people in there seething and about to jump the fence?” asked Downey.
(12) The city had been in a state of seething unrest since 29 December 2012, when Jyoti Singh, a medical student in her 20s, died of terrible injuries inflicted on her by a group of men who raped and tortured her on a bus.
(13) When soldiers eventually broke their siege and killed the ringleaders, Bin Laden was seething.
(14) "Those frames long haven't existed here," Volkova replied, seething.
(15) Three months later, on 21 September 1991, they fought again at a seething White Hart Lane and in front of an ITV audience of 12m viewers.
(16) Of the Moir storm, writer Tim Brown has decried in Spiked Online "a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence".
(17) Addressing the seething anti-establishment and anti-Jewish sentiment that is increasing among young Muslims is one of the many key challenges for the future.
(18) The kitchen window looked down over Trinity Place, now seething with people.
(19) Clegg shows he is still seething with David Cameron for failing to secure Tory support for House of Lords reform, as he explains why the prime minister's hopes of pressing ahead with a reform of parliamentary boundary sizes is now for the birds.
(20) Called simply September, the painting shows a generic image of the towers, sun-struck in the autumn morning and seething with smoke.