broiling

Example Sentences

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The true project of America, after all, is never in perfectly tailored monuments to success and certainty, but rather the endlessly roiling and turmoiling quest for reinvention.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2016

It was Dante's wind, bearing lost lovers and cranes: Sabbathless Satan, toiling and turmoiling.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I was once in examination," he says,578 "before five or six bishops, where I had much turmoiling.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony

I did not press the subject, the question, the suspicion which was turmoiling my mind.

From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.

What needeth all this travail and turmoiling, Short’ning the life’s sweet pleasure To seek this far-fetched treasure In those hot climates under Phœbus broiling?

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)