Example Sentences

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Below the surface, there was roiling and churn.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2023

At the time, however, everything was roiling and turbid.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2022

That was the highest since October 2019 and the largest weekly increase since March 2020 when the onset of the coronavirus pandemic was roiling financial markets.

From Reuters • Feb. 16, 2022

His aim: to advocate for the aggressive Catholic Counter-Reformation that was roiling 17th century Europe.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021

A wind had come up, and it was roiling the dust along the roadside.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls