How to Use tempestuous in a Sentence

tempestuous

adjective

• But some stars are much more tempestuous.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
• And yet what should have been the end of a tempestuous season wasn’t.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
• Some of you grew up in the tempestuous ’60s and were shaped by them.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2020
• Young and tempestuous, the rapper seemed to sense that his time among the living would be short.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2018
• Next door, the aging wharf also braces against tempestuous surf.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Their love is not tempestuous or even very passionate.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
• Rhaenyra is a bit like the sea; tempestuous at times but often steady; forceful, then quiet, in turns.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
• The relationship with her is tempestuous, and the more thrilling for it.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 June 2019
• But there will be twists and turns in cricket's most tempestuous rivalry.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• Their father was strict and tempestuous and once beat the family dog to death with a baseball bat.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Apr. 2022
• Where Daenerys is fierce and tempestuous, the actress's friends describe her as goofy.
  — refinery29.com, 23 May 2018
• Their collaboration turned out to be tempestuous, and the two were soon not on speaking terms.
  — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Jeanne, tempestuous and naive, is still heartbroken over the loss of her first love and contemplates suicide.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Each one was found after washing up on shore, broken off an actual ship destroyed by storms and the tempestuous sea.
  — Lois Alter Mark, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• But not every track on Both Sides was done in such tempestuous conditions.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
• Inside, the tempestuous rapper Ye (neé Kanye West) was ready to find some peace.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• March is here and spring is supposedly around the corner — but this is a fickle, tempestuous season.
  — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2018
• Alex is attached at the hip to people more powerful and more tempestuous than he, as Ed was to Finn.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 June 2021
• This has been a tempestuous season for him, but Green’s defense has held up with any of his previous great campaigns.
  — Tim Kawakami, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2017
• Their life wasn’t operatic; their love wasn’t tempestuous.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
• Medvedev had a more tempestuous and challenging run to back-to-back Australian Open finals.
  — John Pye, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• In her departing words Truss offered a defense of her low-tax vision and her brief, tempestuous term in office.
  — Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Oct. 2022
• The union would turn out to be tempestuous and the two were divorced in 1961 after five years together.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
• That faith in his ability and focus had faltered at times over the course of this tempestuous and trying campaign, but it has been restored at the last.
  — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 28 May 2026
• In a fiery postgame news conference, the tempestuous Ditka placed the blame for the loss squarely on his quarterback.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2021
• The tweet marks a new turn in the tempestuous relationship between the tech giant and the White House.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
• Chicago is a city full of creators who continue to weather tempestuous storms and make it out alive, usually better and stronger in the end.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• The tempestuous Moon is in your heady sign, trining Jupiter in your 9th House of Learning.
  — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
• The relationship between Uber and London has been tempestuous to say the least.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 May 2024
• The quest to secure the PS5 bag may be a proper, if peculiar, bookend to this tempestuous time.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020