How to Use tempest in a Sentence

tempest

noun

• But there is no chart to help map a course through the tempest of war.
  — Marc Santora Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• A few miles away, amidst the tempest, my wife sat on the front porch of her sister's new home.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2017
• Shows of every hue now engage the tempest of Trump's reach and rule.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
• The threat of the coronavirus hit the economy like a tempest out of nowhere.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2020
• In the heaving seas of the Southern Ocean, a small, red-hulled sailboat tossed and rolled, at the mercy of the tail end of a tempest.
  — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
• The sky was a churning, cold tempest; my glasses useless in the hazy mist.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• The overhaul of the previous rules, which were blown away in the tempest, began eight years ago.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• In each of these tempests, hundreds, even thousands, of lives were lost.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian, 17 Sep. 2019
• The event was triggered by a ferocious storm, but the tempest wasn’t of Earth’s making.
  — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
• But when the sprinkle transformed into a tempest, most of the crowd headed home.
  — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 24 July 2017
• At the south pole, five storms formed a pentagon around a central tempest.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• In the midst of these tempests, seven months after leaving England, scurvy swept through the fleet.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• When a sudden tempest rolls in and Prince’s Eric’s ship catches fire, the crew is quick to evacuate to the lifeboat.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 28 May 2023
• If all this research seems like a tempest in a teacup (or a dust-up in a demi-tasse?) well, coffee is a high-stakes game.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
• In France, the dream is still of the voyage out, sails unfurled, on a roiling wave amid a permanent tempest.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
• Up there, that twin-cell tempest warps these field lines, pulling them through the upper atmosphere.
  — Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
• The storms are categorized by the strength of their winds, although the wind itself often isn't the most deadly part of the tempest.
  — Nasa Earth Observatory, National Geographic, 7 July 2016
• But the sultry chemistry between them on this crossover smash was the perfect tempest of their styles.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2017
• The whole thing was a tempest-in-a-tweetstorm that was also, as such squalls will sometimes be, revealing.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2018
• There were tall trees, ninety-nine shades of green, this very observant child-woman with a dad who has a tempest in him.
  — Caryn James, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• In the tempest over the sentencing of the 12-year-old Gingerich, Lundy soon became an afterthought.
  — [e-mail], Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2014
• The storms are categorized by the strength of their winds, although the wind itself often isn't the deadliest part of the tempest.
  — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2019
• While much of our planet’s air and seas are stirred at a tempest’s whim, some features are far more regular.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
• This week’s tempest dropped snow by the foot from Pennsylvania to New England.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Musk’s move, of course, stirred up a real social-media tempest.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
• Social media tempests are largely for the teapot-dwellers.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Nov. 2023
• Tonight that riff comes out of the massive baritone sax of Clare Daly, the fairy godmother of saxophonists, who blows with the fury of a tempest.
  — Joshua David Stein, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2015
• What followed was a media tempest, as Mr. Bragg was attacked for not having brought a case.
  — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• With more tempests on the horizon, the Ballona Creek trash collector’s first storm season is not yet over.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The only way to truly avoid the tempest of death is to stop climbing altogether.
  — Julie Ellison, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024