How to Use roil in a Sentence

roil

verb

• Financial markets have been roiled by the banking crisis.
• These words alone have roiled the few cities bold enough to utter them.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 15 July 2019
• 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
• The sky was a deep, dusty blue, roiled by swiftly moving clouds.
  — Jody Rosen, Smithsonian, 14 June 2018
• Hong Kong has been roiled by protests against the policies set in Beijing.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 16 July 2019
• Water should be brought to a roiling boil and then kept there for at least a minute.
  — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2019
• The show brings up the issues that have roiled our shared culture in the years that followed the album.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• And for the wider transportation tech landscape, which has been roiled by change in the last two years.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 7 June 2019
• 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
• As Brexit roils the country, at least there are some lessons Britain can still teach.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• The roiling air above Keck blurs the details that are already obscured by the gas.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• Only the 1930s, roiled by the Great Depression, saw a slower growth rate.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
• And that bloody plume, which roiled the fish-farm debate on both sides of the border in December?
  — Morning Brief, The Seattle Times, 6 July 2018
• 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
• Back in San Antonio, Parscale’s work for Trump had roiled his firm.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2019
• The couple met in Aspen five years ago, as the Tinder storm was starting to roil.
  — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2019
• Tokyo Games as the pandemic continues to roil the world.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• When protests roiled Columbia, the school closed its campus to the public.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• His brush with death had fazed him less than his roiling dope sickness.
  — Wired, 15 Sep. 2019
• The plan was announced a week before Christmas 2014 and felt like a gift to a city that had been roiling for months.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2018
• 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
• In 2008, a new vent appeared in the floor of the crater, which has hosted a lake of roiling lava ever since.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• The violence Monday at The Covenant School is the latest school shooting to roil the nation.
  — Jonathan Mattise, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
• The city has been roiled with water supply problems since 2014.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
• The hostilities have sparked fears of a civil war that could roil the entire Horn of Africa.
  — Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• Poor weather conditions have roiled the Ivory Coast and Ghana, which account for more than half of the world’s cocoa supply.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
• This clever micro-history tracks the voyage of two barges through the roiling economic changes of the past half century.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025