tempest-tost
- a variation of tempest-tossed.
Example Sentences
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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2019
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2018
Lazarus’ statue was not asking: “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me”; it commanded.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2017
It is a new world indeed when Lady Liberty – "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me" – might feel more at home in Hamburg than in New York Harbor.
From US News ● Sep. 9, 2015
And in her embrace, the tempest-tost lived and died to the mighty roar of applause.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
