How to Use tumult in a Sentence

tumult

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  • We had to shout to be heard over the tumult.
  • The country was in tumult.
  • Her mind was in a tumult of emotions.
  • This isn’t the first time food prices have been in a tumult.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Evelyne Musambi, and Joeal Calupitan, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Not all of the tumult that occurred over the past year was his fault, to be sure.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • And despite the tumult off the field, Michigan would like to keep him around.
    — Ralph D. Russo, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • In the tumult, work on the dam ceased, the prosecutor said.
    — James Glanz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • At the time of the ownership change, Barnes & Noble was in a state of tumult.
    — Maureen O’Connor, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • And the political tumult stacks up all the way to the United States.
    — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The tumult has roped in some of the biggest acts in K-pop, and could spill over well beyond that genre.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Let all the tumult within me cease, Lord, enfold me in your peace.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 12 Oct. 2022
  • His on-field struggles pale compared with the tumult of his life in 2022.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Still, despite the tumult, in the wake of Prigozhin’s mutiny few are cheering on future coups.
    — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • No one knows where the tumult of our time will lead; no doubt more surprises await.
    — William Inboden, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, the tumult in the housing market over the last year has pushed a good number of buyers, like the Basiles, to a breaking point.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Still, Putin’s threats add to a general sense of anxiety in a world in tumult.
    — Vanessa Gera, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Throughout this tumult, however, the role of Gulf states, rich with oil and gas, seemed to change little.
    — Karen E. Young, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
  • Now each of their successors stands in their place, a mark of the tumult that has beset the world’s sixth-largest economy.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Beneath the cliffs, the land swoons down through a tumult of rock, blossoms, pine trees, and villas to a shore indented with bays.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
  • But along the way, there have been signs of tumult, and breakup rumors have swirled multiple times before.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Feb. 2023
  • That may have fed into the recent tumult in U.K. markets.
    — Julie Steinberg, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But after five days of leadership tumult, Altman was brought back and a new board was named.
    — Gillian Tan, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • But on a recent day at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, there was little sense of the tumult that surrounds him.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Wes Moore’s victory has recaptured some of the magic that has been lost in our politics in the tumult of the past few years.
    — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
  • However, Sean McVay’s Rams lost the previous six and are a team mired in tumult.
    — Catena Media, al, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In the bustle and tumult of daily life, giving thanks can come as an afterthought.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In the tumult of 2020, Time magazine declared Kendi to be one of the most influential people in the world.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • This shot that started in swirling tumult and close chaos now gives us a tensely still panorama of an army standing atop a fortress, waiting for the war to come to them.
    — Vulture, 26 Sep. 2022
  • But Smith’s tenure was also marked by tension and tumult.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The episodic release helped build the same sense of tumult and chaos as the actual characters are feeling.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022

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