(a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Jets have overperformed to this point, reaching the halfway stage at a respectable 4-4, when many had expected them to struggle in the wake of a tempestuous offseason.
(2) Spurs’ title hopes were abruptly ended following a tempestuous match in which 12 players were booked by the referee, Mark Clattenburg.
(3) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together.
(4) It seems that Malema's dramatic and tempestuous political career may be over for now.
(5) This derby bore little resemblance to the tempestuous Merseyside affairs against Everton – of which Gerrard played in 33 – and he was withdrawn three minutes from time.
(6) In 2007 Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil, a part-time gopher for a music video company with whom she had been having an on-off tempestuous relationship.
(7) Notwithstanding tempestuous progress in the development of monoclonal antibody kits, culturing of Coxsackie viruses will continue to be of substantive importance to diagnosis, because of the small size of pathogens.
(8) Before the long balmy era we have enjoyed over the past 10,000 years, climate was often much more tempestuous.
(9) He left his children's mother for Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel , with whom he had a brief, hedonistic, tempestuous relationship with violence on both sides.
(10) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together with leading actor and actress award nominations.
(11) Prominent substance abuse history, tempestuous biographies, and unstable early home environment were common to all diagnostic subgroups.
(12) Eight years later they'd meet again at Villa Park, Rafael Albrecht getting himself sent off for kneeing Helmut Haller in the swingers during a tempestuous (but goalless) group game.
(13) Mourinho, reviled in Spain following his tempestuous spell at Real Madrid, made it known in the build up that it was Hazard, and not Cristiano Ronaldo, who deserved to be known as the second best player on earth.
(14) Roy Keane has described himself as living with a “self-destruct button” as he looks back over his tempestuous career and tries to explain his old drinking habits and how difficult he found it to adjust to life after playing football.
(15) The birth of the parliament in Edinburgh has been tempestuous, with rows over Section 28, the mounting cost of the parliament building and the exam results fiasco.
(16) At a tempestuous session of the self-proclaimed supreme council of the Donetsk People's Republic on Tuesday afternoon, there was shouting and arguing about the best way forward, and the divisions between different strands of the movement were apparent.
(17) Over the tempestuous decade of his 1970s glory years, Bowie illuminated popular culture in a way unequalled since, and which is unimaginable in the X Factor era.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vice-president Joice Mujuru, formerly known as Spill Blood, has an often tempestuous relationship with Grace Mugabe.
(19) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(20) But her announcement, following the departure this year of Behan's predecessor, Cynthia Bower, will have drawn much of the sting from what was likely to have been a tempestuous hearing.
Turbulent
Definition:
(a.) Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
(a.) Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.
(a.) Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.
Example Sentences:
(1) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(2) The visualized turbulent flow was consistent with a ventriculoseptal defect but also appeared to extend posteriorly into the left atrium in a direct line with the septal communication.
(3) A Bernoulli 'free-fall' numerical model is shown to reproduce the principal features of such casting, with some evidence of viscosity limitation of the turbulent flow at long casting lengths.
(4) When there is turbulence in the vein lumen the volume of reflux becomes excessive and causes so much adjustment that constrictor tone is abolished.
(5) The Kremlin has so far refrained from dealing with mounting anger against people from Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region, as well as migrant workers from central Asia, which has grown as the country's oil-fuelled economic boom has given way to the hardship of the global financial crisis.
(6) Shearer has long been expected to take the reins at St James' Park at some point but it is something of a surprise that he has chosen to do so amid such turbulence and uncertainty over the club's future.
(7) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(8) Doppler and color flow Doppler examinations demonstrated nonpulsatile and turbulent blood flow within the lesion, consistent with a diagnosis of umbilical artery aneurysm.
(9) On the other hand, the device is more sensitive to the turbulences induced by the subject's own breathing.
(10) In 1 patient the clinical diagnosis of arteriovenous fistulae was confirmed by color Doppler which demonstrated a continuous turbulent flow within the femoral vein.
(11) We conclude that flow disturbance or turbulence is a major factor in the development of venous intimal-medial hyperplasia in arteriovenous loop grafts.
(12) "The external environment provides a testing backdrop for these results, and all our industries face some degree of turbulence," Scardino said.
(13) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(14) The Brontes lived in stirring times and in a turbulent region.
(15) With the sample volume in the right ventricle a continuous turbulent flow was observed.
(16) Pathologic regurgitant jets were seen as high-velocity, systolic-retrograde turbulent flow across the prosthesis.
(17) Because maximum expiratory flow-volume rates in normal subjects are dependent on gas density, the resistance between alveoli and the point at which dynamic compression begins (R(us)) is mostly due to convective acceleration and turbulence.
(18) Clinical applications of this index suggest the possibility of using it further as a detection tool for diseases that generate turbulent noises.
(19) The usual high pressure injections also result in turbulent flow conditions.
(20) Steering the debate through these turbulent waters with more than his usual sense of mischief was David Dimbleby .