Examples of tumult in a Sentence
We had to shout to be heard over the tumult.
The country was in tumult.
Her mind was in a tumult of emotions.
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Butler, a former sixth-round pick in 2018, is one of a handful of A’s players who blossomed despite the tumult of the team’s messy divorce with the city of Oakland.
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Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
But the tumult of the new Trump administration loomed in the background from the start.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025
And yet, making my way around Washington this week, the city showed no signs of the Trumpian tumult.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
While a divorce, like the one the singer went through with Liam Hemsworth in 2019, can be a destabilizing life change, Cyrus emerged from personal tumult a little more zen.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
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Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
But the tumult of the new Trump administration loomed in the background from the start.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025
And yet, making my way around Washington this week, the city showed no signs of the Trumpian tumult.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
While a divorce, like the one the singer went through with Liam Hemsworth in 2019, can be a destabilizing life change, Cyrus emerged from personal tumult a little more zen.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tumult
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“Tumult.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tumult. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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tumult
noun
tu·mult
ˈt(y)ü-ˌməlt 
1
: uproar
a great tumult arose in the stands
2
: great confusion of mind
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