turbulency
- a variation of turbulence.
Example Sentences
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I grant, that the pride, ambition, and turbulency of private men have sometimes caused great disorders in commonwealths, and factions have been fatal to states and kingdoms.
From Second Treatise of Government by Locke, John
Here are several lines taken from Poe’s The Bells: What a world of merriment their melody foretells, What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Poe, Edgar Allan
The refugee seeking, Narcissus-like, to see himself in his adoptive country, credited England with his own characteristics, turbulency and the thirst for scientific information.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles
About this time the country was in a state of great turbulency on account of the Plug Drawing and the Chartist Riots.
From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
