roils
- present tense form of roil (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“It roils the markets,” he said, adding that it unsettles both investors and the legal framework surrounding the Fed.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
But it instead feels like an easy escape hatch when what “On Swift Horses” promised was a richer psychological landscape about what roils inside hearts accustomed to hiding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Lucas benefits from both Menzies’ natural reserve and his ability to show what roils beneath that stoicism, a game of emotive hide-and-seek.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
But today, the outflow roils in a pink froth, like a cauldron of Pepto Bismol.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2023
The Sun caught the Spires of the South End, the gray Water that roils under the Docks, the Grasses on Beacon Hill; & all was in Motion & Ferment.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
