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tempestuously

[tem-pes-choo-uhs-lee] / tɛmˈpɛs tʃu əs li /


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Outside, the briny tang of windswept sea air, the North Sea swirling tempestuously below.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

At just 19, she married Sir Peter Scott, the son of Captain Scott of the Antarctic and went on to marry twice more, most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2014

“There is nothing that’s more important in democracy than a well-informed electorate,” she says tempestuously.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2012

This entailed slashing one’s shirt to the waist in a gypsy-ish fashion, and biting the air tempestuously, as if catching flies.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2012

So Westerha' rode nearer to them, shouting like a shepherd crying down the wind tempestuously, when his dogs are working sourly.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett


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