How to Use turmoil in a Sentence

turmoil

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  • On and on the turmoil grinds through this crazed decade.
    — Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Uvalde has been in turmoil in the two years since the shooting.
    — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • And the timing is right for the return of the festival, given the world’s turmoil.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • Despite the street turmoil, Ms. Myrle likes to go for strolls on her breaks.
    — Jordan Gale Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • Hernández and André broke off from the others, and from the turmoil emerged a new group: Jaguares.
    — Holly Alvarado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
  • What the 71-year-old has found since completing his $1.5 billion deal is a club in turmoil and the Premier League in chaos.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune Europe, 20 June 2024
  • And this post is Substack sticking its flag in the ground as reading on the internet is in some turmoil.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The next day came a sobering tour of Old Havana, from its colonial roots to its modern turmoil.
    — Moriah Balingit, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Those lonely fields could feel like a refuge from the turmoil of being Black in Alabama.
    — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
  • The short video also showed a hint of turmoil, as SZA and a shirtless Justin begin to have an argument.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Other elixirs for inner turmoil tumble down to us from sources as old as myths.
    — Martha McPhee, Vogue, 24 July 2024
  • The report did not delve into the internal turmoil that caused sponsors to flee.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The Portland Trail Blazers’ offseason has seen its share of turmoil to this point.
    — Afentres, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
  • There’s so much history, culture, and current turmoil in some of the countries that are featured on the show.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • His killing stunned a department that has struggled to fill its ranks since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing turmoil.
    — Michael Goldberg, Twin Cities, 11 June 2024
  • The workplace in turmoil over whether to open a lactation room to other uses has reached détente — for now.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Also, in a world in so much turmoil, creators try to look in the past or look into the future to address current topics.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Warren-Darby said the turmoil at City Hall is unnecessary when the mayor and the council are all Democrats.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The action is set in 2013, a time of political turmoil in Egypt, although that is not overly stressed.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Amid all the turmoil that has unfolded with the Angels’ season in the last month, alone, Luis Rengifo has quietly emerged as one of the best hitters on the team.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Learning how to identify them, and what to do next, can save you much emotional turmoil.
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • Her dismissal followed two years of turmoil over challenges to the books available and library programs.
    — Mead Gruver, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The general election winner will take charge of an office in turmoil, leading some to call for a pair of steady hands to replace Gascón.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • One of the fears on Wall Street is that recent turmoil in the banking system could cause a pullback in lending, which in turn could weaken the economy.
    — CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The predawn attack threatened to plunge Haiti deeper into turmoil.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • Wheat prices have shot up, in part because of the turmoil in Europe, but many American farmers have still struggled because the yields are so small.
    — Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The world is in turmoil, and the men alive today are reeling because most of them have only known the most peaceful and prosperous times in history.
    — Bymohamed El Aassar, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • While this first year of the 118th Congress was a historic one, thanks to the dizzying turmoil coming from the Republicans on the House side of the Capitol, next year is headed toward more of the same.
    — Lisa Mascaro The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Bulls are piling into funds that track U.S. shares and abandoning trades that would profit in times of market turmoil.
    — WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Historians are reaching back to the turmoil of 1968 for comparisons.
    — Hannah Jewell, Washington Post, 29 July 2024

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