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How to use tempestuous in a sentence

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Unforgiving dry, and tempestuous rainy seasons ensure that mankind's foothold here will forever be tenuous.
A long-time friend of Mark said he drank up to 20 cans of lager a day and had a tempestuous relationship with Claire.
The offshore waters are typically tempestuous, but winds in the channel's eastern bight will be only 10 to 15 knots.
And if tempestuous catabatic winds blow, the itinerary allows plenty of time to wait them out in four-season tents.
Only calm remained, as still and tranquil as the ocean after a tempestuous storm.
Following a tempestuous marriage, Nelson moved in 1953 to Fort Worth, became a country deejay and played bars, mixing honky-tonk and preaching.
Parents under pressure may be less tolerant of tempestuous adolescent behavior, he believes, causing additional conflict.
He brought strong intensity and passion to Bellini's tempestuous masterpiece.
The match had been relatively quiet until the 28th minute when it suddenly exploded into tempestuous life.
It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
A fiery, tempestuous reading of the Allegro non troppo had just the right contrasting hues of aristocratic grace.
The tempestuous whirl of circum-Antarctic waters is also responsible for their being among the most fertile in the world.
His thoughtswere an unwielding jumble inhis mind. The last five days had been long and full of tempestuous thoughts.
A tempestuous dialogue exists between the EU and Russia, which has nonetheless been indispensable to the stability of this part of the globe.
According to the beautiful and tempestuous Carmen, love is a rebellious bird, here today and gone tomorrow.
This did not, however, mean that he had lost any of his tempestuous spirit, piercing intelligence or stinging turn of phrase.
This album is a dark, tempestuous but highly inviting place that you could quite easily lose yourself in, and there's a real chance that you won't want to return.
Gone was the mercurial, tempestuous socialite who didn't know what she wanted, swung from mood to mood, loved childish games, or danced the night away.
At the basic level Scarlett is a tempestuous heroine out of a bodice-ripping historical novel, a focus for fantasy projection on the part of far more sedate women.
Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for her support slot as his tempestuous star turn.
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It was only four months since the Hun was swamping us with his tempestuous might!
He does not shun to be discerned in the evening of a tempestuous life, crippled with wounds aching and uncured.
As at some time the wind rises, so after a sunshiny day there may be a tempestuous night.
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
After two days of scorching heat and tempestuous seas we arrived at Bushire, where a spit keeps shipping off.
We call her Finola because she shelters the rest of us under her wings when the moyle gets tempestuous.
But it will calm the swell and heaving of thy passion, like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea.
It is surprising to see with what fearless unconcern these savages venture in their light barks upon the roughest and most tempestuous seas.
Never have we seen a creature so fiery, tempestuous, cyclonic.
He wove their fine gold into the dark web of his tempestuous passions.
His second book Romany and Tom is a moving account of his parents' lives and their tempestuous relationship.
The sun went down on its wrath, and its night was tempestuous.
The Sabbath of the eleventh of March was wet and tempestuous.
He is a tempestuous person, but can be very grave when he likes.
Did she wish to wean the tempestuous Judy from her old friends?
Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.
It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
It was, indeed, a tempestuous yet sternly beautiful night, and one wildly singular in its terror and its beauty.
Phileas Fogg gazed at the tempestuous sea, which seemed to be struggling especially to delay him, with his habitual tranquillity.
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