How to Use tempestuous in a Sentence

tempestuous

adjective

• Some of you grew up in the tempestuous ’60s and were shaped by them.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2020
• Pine City mentions: 'The most tempestuous (stormy) day of the year.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• Young and tempestuous, the rapper seemed to sense that his time among the living would be short.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2018
• The French relationship with the U.S. has been close but at times tempestuous since the 1778 treaty that helped defeat the British.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• The tweet marks a new turn in the tempestuous relationship between the tech giant and the White House.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• The relationship with her is tempestuous, and the more thrilling for it.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 June 2019
• Tempestuous will keep 80 percent of the profits of any print of a piece sold online.
  — Joe Vaccarelli, The Denver Post, 1 May 2017
• Lani was a tempestuous mess and finished ninth in 2016.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Inside, the tempestuous rapper Ye (neé Kanye West) was ready to find some peace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• Their father was strict and tempestuous and once beat the family dog to death with a baseball bat.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Apr. 2022
• Rhaenyra is a bit like the sea; tempestuous at times but often steady; forceful, then quiet, in turns.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
• Alex is attached at the hip to people more powerful and more tempestuous than he, as Ed was to Finn.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 June 2021
• The quest to secure the PS5 bag may be a proper, if peculiar, bookend to this tempestuous time.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
• Where Daenerys is fierce and tempestuous, the actress's friends describe her as goofy.
  — refinery29.com, 23 May 2018
• The bad blood reached a boiling point in the sixth inning when Flaherty hit Tatis in the side, leading to a stare from the tempestuous right fielder and words from Profar.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• In a fiery postgame news conference, the tempestuous Ditka placed the blame for the loss squarely on his quarterback.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2021
• But due to the tempestuous end to their fight, rumors have been rife that a Nurmagomedov-McGregor rematch could be on the cards.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 6 Sep. 2019
• That would be the hounding of Johnson from the presidency and the ending of the most tempestuous love affair of his life: with the office itself.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• Taken from the very last 1984 casks at a time few knew of Talisker’s tempestuous maritime character.
  — Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Medvedev had a more tempestuous and challenging run to back-to-back Australian Open finals.
  — John Pye, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• The Knowledge The relationship between Uber and London has been tempestuous to say the least.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 May 2024
• Next door, the aging wharf also braces against tempestuous surf.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Jeanne, tempestuous and naive, is still heartbroken over the loss of her first love and contemplates suicide.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Their collaboration turned out to be tempestuous, and the two were soon not on speaking terms.
  — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• This has been a tempestuous season for him, but Green’s defense has held up with any of his previous great campaigns.
  — Tim Kawakami, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2017
• The scars include his tempestuous relationship with Aaron Rodgers, which has been well-documented in the run-up to the release of this book.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 1 Nov. 2016
• But not every track on Both Sides was done in such tempestuous conditions.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
• The next day, amid a still-tempestuous current, a boat outside the harbor had reported a 10-foot chunk of the runaway concrete dock floating out at sea.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
• In this excerpt, of the book’s prologue and first chapter, Grann introduces David Cheap, a burly, tempestuous British naval lieutenant.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• But given how tempestuous the region has become, both options—stepping up and stepping back—will cost the United States far more than is typically imagined.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024