Example Sentences

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The longer the strait remains closed, the more it will roil the global economy and boost gas prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Customs has long considered seafood’s country of origin to be where it was processed, and the expanded sanctions will roil American markets.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Two other mild chances would visit Lukaku from there, but it was the one in the 90th minute that will roil for good.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

Andrew Madoff surely knows that this news will roil the markets tomorrow, and he and the other traders at his father’s firm will probably have a grueling day.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2011

The debates will roil things--they always do--and no one will be surprised if the scrutiny machine embarrasses at least one of the contenders.

From Time Magazine Archive