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How to use turmoil in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Turmoil means a state of great disorder or uncertainty. Example: “The collapse of the gold standard brought about much of the economic turmoil of that era.”

Examples of turmoil by meaning

nounA state of great disorder or uncertainty.

  • Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport
  • The Taoists developed their philosophy during an extended era of turmoil known as the Warring States period of Chinese history.2024 January 14, Charles Hugh Smith, Self-Reliance, Taoism and the Warring States

More sentences with turmoil

  • The collapse of the gold standard brought about much of the economic turmoil of that era.From the entry bring about
  • Remembering the turmoil she experienced when her father left her mother, she vowed she would never be the other woman.From the entry other woman
  • The Trump curse meant this White House was in turmoil from the very first day.2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free…. From the entry ragetweet
  • When it involves considerable turmoil and disruption, we speak of a mid-life crisis.1978, Daniel J. Levinson, The Seasons of a Man's Life, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry mid-life crisis
  • The turmoil has engulfed more and more of the right.2025 November 20, J. Oliver Conroy, “White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing a civil war among US Republicans: ‘We look like clowns’”…. From the entry ISI
  • Wanting to alleviate his papa-bear turmoil, Tammy soft-punched him in the gut, then looped her arm through his.2015, Jennifer Slattery, chapter 12, in Interwined, New Hope Publishers, page 80. From the entry papa-bear
  • With such constant off-field turmoil Hughton’s work has been remarkable and this may have been his last game in charge.2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph. From the entry firm
  • Turmoil in the Balkans and Middle East was nothing new.2001, Barbara Olson, “The Final Frenzy: Finishing Touches on the Legend”, in The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the…. From the entry take the helm
  • They say offensive things to rock the boat and cause some turmoil in the world of safe, homogenized P.C. punk rock.1994, Chris Dodge, quotee, “Slap a Ham Records”, in Chaotic Noise, number 3, Roanoke, Va.…. From the entry rock the boat
  • This breakdown is virtually complete in Art Informel, in the turmoil of tachism, and in similar tendencies in modern painting.1992, Rupert Riedl, “Schrödinger’s Negentropy Concept and Biology”, in Johann Götschl, editor, Erwin Schrödinger’s World View: The…. From the entry tachism
  • Although the February 28 incident did not cause great turmoil in Taitung, the situation was tense due to very few troops and county officials.2018, Chun-ying (吳俊瑩) Wu, “二二八事件在臺東 [The February 28 Incident in Taitung]”, in 台灣文獻, volume 69, number 4, archived from the original on 26…. From the entry Peinan
  • “Tell the tourists to come back,” he said, referring to the exodus of safarigoers who have left Kenya because of the turmoil.2008 February 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Spreading Banditry Dilutes Benefits of a Plan for Ethnic Peace in Kenya”, in New York Times. From the entry safarigoer
  • In the stereotyped cycle of peace and turmoil of a feudalistic society in Chinese history, Confucian culture has always been considered the basic stabilizing force.1996 May, Lee Teng-hui, “Political Reforms”, in Peace Through Democratic Reforms, Taipei: Wen Ying Tang Press Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, pages…. From the entry feudalistic
  • Cao Cao was the final chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty, who went on to form his own state during the political turmoil of the Three Kingdoms period.2009 December 27, Beijing Newsroom, Lucy Hornby, “China says discovers tomb of famed general Cao Cao”, in Sugita Katyal, editor, Reuters…. From the entry Wei
  • Retro-assimilation has strong appeal in today's climate of social turmoil, transformation and global threats: we are irresistibly drawn to its retroscapes, its nostalgic memories of safer and simpler times.2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the dream: assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, page 8. From the entry retroscape
  • Williams knows that the least essential thing about emo is its emoness, so she plays down the emotional turmoil to focus on energy and kicks instead.2008, 21st Century Music, volume 15, numbers 1-6, page 7. From the entry emoness
  • Once women have traversed the turmoil of the climacteric years and reached the hormonal steady-state of the post-menopause, there is almost certainly no increase in the incidence of depression.1998, Roger N J Smith, John W. W. Studd, The Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy, page 8. From the entry climacteric
  • He rode above a thunderstorm at war with a sunset— a ceaseless, soundless turmoil of fantastic clouds that filled half the sky like a nearby planet.1981, Fred Saberhagen, The Berserker Wars, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry hypermassive
  • The film's psychosexual turmoil is heightened still further by the director's linkage of these two milieus: gays cruise in cop costumes, and off-duty cops cruise in S-M drag.1980 February 18, Frank Rich, “Cop Out in a Dark Deminmonde”, in Time. From the entry psychosexual
  • I’ll take my record-player along in my plane and we’ll meet in Chungking and have us some razz-ma-tazz,” and Shorty practically trucked on away from us through the turmoil.1943, Ted W[illiam] Lawson, edited by Robert Considine, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 52. From the entry record-player

Meaning of turmoil

  1. noun A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
  2. noun Harassing labor; trouble; disturbance.
  3. verb To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

Full definition of turmoil

Questions about turmoil in a sentence

How do you use turmoil in a sentence?
Turmoil is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The collapse of the gold standard brought about much of the economic turmoil of that era.”
What is a short sentence with turmoil?
“The turmoil has engulfed more and more of the right.”
What does turmoil mean?
Turmoil means a state of great disorder or uncertainty.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turmoil (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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