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 hostilities have sparked fears of a civil war that could roil the entire Horn of Africa.
  — Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• In other words, the party is already roiled in a public, weeks-long fight.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• 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
• The highest tides of 2020 are headed to the Bay Area on Monday, and unsettled weather in the region might roil the waters up even more.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• 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
• First, Cuba was roiled by stretching island-wide blackouts stretching on for days, a product of the island’s energy crisis.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2024
• The results have roiled Romanian politics just a week before a parliamentary election that will set the shape of the next government.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024