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Example sentences for "tumultuous"

Lexicographically close words:
tumulo; tumult; tumulte; tumults; tumultuary; tumultuously; tumulum; tumulus; tun; tuna
  1. The Oued Fez rushes through the heart of the town, bridged, canalized, built over, and ever and again bursting out into tumultuous falls and pools shadowed with foliage.

  2. In the great voiceless halls and chambers there was no sound but her poor, tumultuous heart beating wildly against a bosom sore with weeping.

  3. But the fire has died out; tumultuous passion is allayed; the old South with its mountains and glades, rivers and valleys, the stars above its sodden ground beneath, is still there.

  4. This menace to the South marked the tumultuous heart-beats of the commercial North, when it contemplated the separation of indestructible states.

  5. The usual crowd of horse-swappers was gathered in the town-house yard, and beheld this tumultuous passage with professional interest.

  6. With the tumultuous wind at their backs it was not long before the buggy rattled once more over the cobble-stones of the town.

  7. Five years before, in the tumultuous consciousness of his wrongs, he would have scarcely trusted himself face to face with the cooler and more self-controlled Demorest.

  8. The tumultuous rush and roar of swollen and rapid water came from the darkness behind them.

  9. Some remains of respect prevented the latter from following Guadet's advice; and after tumultuous debates, Lafayette was admitted to the honours of the sitting, but this was all on the part of the assembly.

  10. Pepe, on his side, endeavoured to conceal under an impenetrable mask the tumultuous feeling resulting from his now satisfied vengeance.

  11. But the tumultuous and contrary passions which struggled in the heart of the Blackbird--ambition on the one hand, and thirst for vengeance on the other--kept him awake without effort.

  12. However, they reached the climax at last, and amidst the tumultuous acclamations of the spectators the previously anointed heads of King Sidney and Queen Selina, as they must henceforth be described, received their respective crowns.

  13. For a moment or two there was a hush, and then the whole mob broke into tumultuous cheers--for the Queen, the King, and more particularly the Crown Prince.

  14. The wanderer halts beside the shore, The bridge was swept the tides before-- The shattered arches o'er and under Went the tumultuous waves in thunder.

  15. So signal an instance of neglect could only have occurred in a government, which, without dignity of independence, was guided by the tumultuous multitude it ought to have governed.

  16. Now the confined anger of the people burst forth in one tumultuous clamor.

  17. Midst the wild tumultuous sound My former strength were then restored.

  18. In the midst of a tumultuous crowd he walked in solitude.

  19. Pardon, dear prince, if I can only meet With wonder these tumultuous ecstacies.

  20. Oh, Bertha, all the yearnings of my soul For this great world and its tumultuous strife, What were they, but a yearning after thee?

  21. Into thy bosom's holy, silent cells, Thou needs must fly from life's tumultuous throng!

  22. Tumultuous sounds Of music, dance, and jocund revelry Ring from the walls of the illumined palace.

  23. Thou must have no companion but love; leave behind all thy hopes, all thy tumultuous wishes--thou wilt need nothing on this journey but thy heart.

  24. He pressed his closed hands to his temples as if to suppress the tumultuous joy that surged within him, and his actions indicated that he was moved by an uncontrollable mirth.

  25. Her nonchalant acceptance of the invitation gave no idea of her tumultuous excitement.

  26. There was the usual tumultuous cheering, the usual frantic demonstrations.

  27. There was a dull red light over the mouth of the crater, round which the smoke rolled in dense tumultuous volumes, and then blew off towards the south-west.

  28. Now she began speaking, huskily at first, with tumultuous syllables and wide open vowels, and at the first pause they cheered.

  29. He had no interest in Addington, he thought: only in the sad case of Lydia thrown up against the tumultuous horde of his released emotions and hurt by them and charmed by them and, his remorseful judgment told him, insulted by them.

  30. His mind flew round and round in a circle, lingering over every detail of the short interview with a tumultuous pleasure that hid pain very thinly.

  31. Upon its tumultuous volume they swept forward, side by side .

  32. Lettice was the high-water mark on shore he longed to reach and sweep back into his own tumultuous being.

  33. In a period so tumultuous as was this quarter-century, one could scarce expect that the world would make much progress in science.

  34. For a moment one lost sight of her as though she had sunk in those tumultuous waters; then she suddenly reappeared close to Pierre and the doctor, who endeavoured to extricate her from the crush.

  35. And he assumed a radiant air and laughed complacently whilst pointing to the tumultuous defile of the sick.

  36. You were a young lawyer, and were turned all of a sudden, and in consequence of a tumultuous lawsuit, into a political character.

  37. A revolution was going on in my agitated and tumultuous thoughts.

  38. Not all the love I bore Amelia, nor the tumultuous delight with which the approaching hour of possessing her filled my heart, could, for a while, allay my grief at the loss of my beloved Nancy.

  39. In that season of tumultuous joy which followed the Restoration, a large revenue for life had been almost by acclamation granted to Charles the Second.

  40. A tumultuous council of the chief inhabitants was called.

  41. So desperate their charge, and so great their numbers, that the Barons, after a short and tumultuous conflict, were driven back, and chased by their pursuers for more than a mile from the walls of the city.

  42. Through this wild, tumultuous scene, and over the bodies of its victims, rode the Legate and his train, to receive in the Hall of the Capitol the allegiance of the citizens, and to proclaim the return of the oppressors.

  43. But as his mind by degrees calmed itself from its first wild and tumultuous rapture, he could not help asking himself the question whether they were not still to be divided!

  44. In the tumultuous year of 1859 all Italy was in a ferment.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumultuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.