tempest

Example Sentences

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Readers of Shakespeare’s late romance will remember that this ship runs into a tempest that disgorges its passengers onto a strange island in the middle of nowhere.

From Los Angeles Times

"You are standing on the shore after the fact, I was steering the ship in the middle of the tempest," he berated the assembled press.

From BBC

"I was steering the ship in the middle of the tempest," Morrison told reporters, recalling how the pandemic hit Australia in 2020.

From Reuters

One Republican newspaper cautioned that Pouren’s extradition would “raise such a tempest among the Jews and Russians of New York and Chicago that the Republican Party in November would be crushed beyond recognition.”

From Washington Post

The day concluded with the bombshell that the FBI had searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, a tempest that shows little sign of abating.

From Washington Post