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
• In each of these tempests, hundreds, even thousands, of lives were lost.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian, 17 Sep. 2019
• The sky was a churning, cold tempest; my glasses useless in the hazy mist.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• At the south pole, five storms formed a pentagon around a central tempest.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Musk’s move, of course, stirred up a real social-media tempest.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
• Up there, that twin-cell tempest warps these field lines, pulling them through the upper atmosphere.
  — Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
• The threat of the coronavirus hit the economy like a tempest out of nowhere.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2020
• But when the sprinkle transformed into a tempest, most of the crowd headed home.
  — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 24 July 2017
• The overhaul of the previous rules, which were blown away in the tempest, began eight years ago.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• 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
• But the sultry chemistry between them on this crossover smash was the perfect tempest of their styles.
  — Ron Hart, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The event was triggered by a ferocious storm, but the tempest wasn’t of Earth’s making.
  — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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
• In the midst of these tempests, seven months after leaving England, scurvy swept through the fleet.
  — Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• The only way to truly avoid the tempest of death is to stop climbing altogether.
  — Julie Ellison, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2017
• The tempest snapped trees and knocked out power, and even toppled a billboard onto vehicles.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• Atop the steps there stands a lone officer, pea-sized amid the large columns, surveying the tempest beneath.
  — Wired, 10 Oct. 2019
• 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
• At least one of these areas has flowed easily like water—or, on the opposite note, has been somewhat of a tempest.
  — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
• 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
• In that light, the Singularity is just a digital tempest in a teacup.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2011
• 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
• This week’s tempest dropped snow by the foot from Pennsylvania to New England.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• At the height of the terrestrial tempest, the solar storm knocked out local emergency channels for about eight hours.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• People across the Valley were woken by the noise of the tempest and its unrelenting gales and hard rain, which slammed in sideways.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• Jones is much maligned in the media tempest that is New York, but nobody can ever question his toughness.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022
• In the tempest of race in America, the resolution was marked by an impressive degree of good faith.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017