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
  • Crime, street sense and the status quo roil the mind of a teenager in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The smooth, polished trip came amid a roiling news cycle.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In the latest wave to roil the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Tokyo Games as the pandemic continues to roil the world.
    Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • 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
  • The city has been roiled with water supply problems since 2014.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The hostilities have sparked fears of a civil war that could roil the entire Horn of Africa.
    Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The election was always going to roil the markets, and not just on election night.
    Anne Sraders, Fortune, 8 July 2020
  • In other words, the party is already roiled in a public, weeks-long fight.
    Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • The deal is sure roil some consumer advocates who have warned against the merger.
    Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Crane Beach is where the Caribbean and Atlantic meet in a roiling bay below dramatic cliffs in the southeast.
    Patrick Scott, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Since then, Mozambique has been roiled by once-in-a-generation protests in which more than 300 people have died, according to local civil society groups.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2025

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