Examples of tumult in a Sentence
We had to shout to be heard over the tumult.
The country was in tumult.
Her mind was in a tumult of emotions.
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The horrific shootings come amidst a week of tumult and terror.
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ABC News, 15 June 2025
Praise for Harvard and Columbia Months of tumult for higher education institutions have followed Trump’s January inauguration, with the administration threatening Columbia University’s accreditation and Harvard’s new international students just last week.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 11 June 2025
Indeed, Fitzgerald, who died in 1940, was prescient about the forthcoming tumult—the eventual Hollywood strike mixed, as in his novel, actual Communists with Red-baiting anti-Communists as the Mob looked on and profited.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
President Trump further exacerbated the muddy outlook for some grads by announcing sweeping tariffs against nearly all U.S. trading partners on April 2, triggering global economic tumult and huge stock market losses.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
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ABC News, 15 June 2025
Praise for Harvard and Columbia Months of tumult for higher education institutions have followed Trump’s January inauguration, with the administration threatening Columbia University’s accreditation and Harvard’s new international students just last week.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 11 June 2025
Indeed, Fitzgerald, who died in 1940, was prescient about the forthcoming tumult—the eventual Hollywood strike mixed, as in his novel, actual Communists with Red-baiting anti-Communists as the Mob looked on and profited.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
President Trump further exacerbated the muddy outlook for some grads by announcing sweeping tariffs against nearly all U.S. trading partners on April 2, triggering global economic tumult and huge stock market losses.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
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“Tumult.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tumult. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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tumult
noun
tu·mult
ˈt(y)ü-ˌməlt 
1
: uproar
a great tumult arose in the stands
2
: great confusion of mind
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