How to Use roil in a Sentence

roil

verb

• Financial markets have been roiled by the banking crisis.
• For Brown, the project proves an antidote to, or refuge from, the roiling agon of our times.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• In New Hampshire, a town has been roiled for months over that question.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
• Expect a whole lot of yelling, a roiling sea of mosh pits and enough bass to deafen all of L.A. Live.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Only the 1930s, roiled by the Great Depression, saw a slower growth rate.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
• The smooth, polished trip came amid a roiling news cycle.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
• Other people dressed in bulky rain gear had ventured out to take in views of the roiling ocean waves.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The violence Monday at The Covenant School is the latest school shooting to roil the nation.
  — Jonathan Mattise, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
• In other words, the party is already roiled in a public, weeks-long fight.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• Bitter debates over the lack of public access to the Sutter Buttes have roiled for years.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
• Even if the effect is minor, the fear of contagion will roil U.S. markets for at least a while.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Each of these polygons measures at least 3.7 miles across and consists of roiling ice.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
• The killings were the latest to roil the Horn of Africa nation, which is reeling from a civil war that began almost two years ago.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2022
• But roiling with grief and barely able to get through daily routines, McRae did not make the payments.
  — Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
• Employers have had their backs up against a wall for months as turnover woes continue to roil the workforce.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2022
• But the deal to drop insurgency charges roiled members of Russia’s elite.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• The issue roiled the country, though most did not share Esper’s paranoia.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• Fallout from the Israel-Hamas war has roiled campuses across the U.S. and reignited a debate over free speech.
  — Michael Casey, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• With layoffs and cutbacks starting to roil the local tech scene, one startup is standing out — and not in a good way.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• Most summer afternoons were roiled by thunderstorms — in the lead-up to which the air became brick-dense.
  — Laura Van Den Berg, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• In fact, many of the shows that the Tonys recognized seemed to reflect and comment on the social divisions roiling the world.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 June 2023
• The January shooting shocked the nation and roiled this shipbuilding city near the Chesapeake Bay.
  — Ben Finley, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• But that sense of comfort is an illusion: There’s a world of hurt roiling beneath the surface of this picture.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023
• When the moon first coalesced, the theory goes, it was covered in an ocean of roiling magma.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
• The celebrants with World Cup-energy roiled in the streets and waved Palestinian flags to mark the occasion.
  — NBC News, 25 Nov. 2023
• The sweeping law was imposed after huge pro-democracy protests roiled the city the year before.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 6 July 2023
• One of the key reasons that workers sought to organize in the first place was the current wave of cost cuts roiling the media business, as well as the threat of AI.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
• The group also organized some of the bigger political protests that roiled the city in 2019.
  — Kanis Leung, ajc, 28 June 2023
• Over the past five years, Daniels hasn't stayed still about the divisive political issues that roil the nation.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2021
• The outsourcing to Mexico helped prompt a recent whistleblower letter from staff to Trump Media’s board that has been roiling the company.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024