(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.
Wander
Definition:
(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase activity was determined by the recently described spectrophotometric method of Wanders et al.
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(5) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(6) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(7) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(9) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(10) An electronic security system can improve the quality of life for alert, oriented patients (and their families) who share a unit with confused, wandering patients.
(11) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(12) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
(13) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(14) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(15) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(16) Distribution of the recurrence was different: some previous sites had apparently become refractory and remained clear, some involvement had recurred in the same site, and new areas of involvement had appeared, causing the eruption to "wander," as is often seen in acute fixed drug eruption due to acetaminophen.
(17) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) O’Malley, the only candidate to wander into the spin room, was asked if he thought he had broken through.
(20) Individuals have shown transient AV block, irregular sinus rhythm, wandering pacemaker, and inverted T waves.