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
• But roiling with grief and barely able to get through daily routines, McRae did not make the payments.
  — Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 13 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• This year, a glut of solar equipment in the market and project delays have roiled the entire solar sector.
  — WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• But in standing up for her right to post to TikTok, she’s firmly taken a side in a heated debate that roils not just Montana but much of the rest of the country.
  — Lisa Bonos, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
• But some remain in the show itself, roiling its mixture of absurdities and half-truths.
  — M.d. Rodrigues, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The decision roiled markets on Wednesday, with the Dow falling almost 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq shedding about 2% of its value.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Park’s subjects include a red-and-orange sun, a craggy mountain in mineral-like hues and a roiling blue sea with a wave that’s about to break.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• Supply chains were roiled by the pandemic and have since healed, allowing goods price increases to slow.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• But the changes that have roiled the geopolitical landscape in recent years have left an impression in C-suites around the United States.
  — Jami Miscik, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2024
• The strike is rapidly rippling outward to roil companies and workers far beyond the picket lines.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2023
• These characters, with their freaky, roiled features, seem to teeter on the edge of a breakdown, as if, after all the years of posturing and posing, the façade is finally about to give way.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
• While young men roiled the streets, political parties jockeyed at the ballot box.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• The attack roiled the U.S. food industry, driving up wholesale meat prices and disrupting trade in cattle and hogs.
  — James Rundle, WSJ, 15 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024