tempest

Example Sentences

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Kafayet’s terrified passengers sobbed as the rain pounded down and the tempest washed their supplies overboard.

From Washington Times

Tulip Town would hardly be the first agricultural partnership to fracture acrimoniously into competing ventures, says Trevor Lane, an expert in economic development with Washington State University Extension who has followed the tulip tempest.

From Seattle Times

In the midst of these tempests, seven months after leaving England, scurvy swept through the fleet.

From Washington Post

“When you think about everything else going on in the world, there’s a side of it that sort of looks like a tempest in a teapot,” Mr. Rutledge, the Georgia dean, said.

From New York Times

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