How to Use turbulent in a Sentence

turbulent

adjective

• Turbulent waters caused the boat to capsize.
• The sixties were a turbulent period in American history.
• Reddit is rolling out the changes on the heels of some turbulent weeks for the platform.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
• The mood is shadowy, the palette a turbulent chiaroscuro.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
• In the world of Hollywood award shows, this year got off to a turbulent start.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
• The trade ends what had been a turbulent time with the Wings for Vrana, a talented forward.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• But the Dutch payments company has had a turbulent few months, as its shares have dropped about 48% since the start of the year.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• Regardless, the staffing cuts come at a turbulent time for the Trevor Project more broadly.
  — Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• Do poets lead more turbulent lives, or does our short form leave more time in the day for mischief?
  — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2023
• The young star has certainly had a turbulent past couple of years.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2023
• At the very least, jotting down turbulent emotions in a journal should help.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2023
• By then, the geyser had settled into a wide, turbulent simmer on the surface.
  — Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023
• Outlook: The Spirit, like the league as a whole, is coming off a turbulent couple of seasons.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, many traders have turned to call options tied to the index, a wager that things may get much more turbulent.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the next few decades, bears became a source of comfort during turbulent times—even for those long past childhood.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• The signal passes through gas, which might be turbulent or clumpy, dense or diffuse.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
• If the waters are calm after a turbulent day and the birds are dropping in and fishing and there's a lot of activity in the water.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• The collective portrait project The Family, which presents U.S. power brokers in the most turbulent stretch of the mid-1970s.
  — Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
• The turbulent winds inside a cloud cause the droplets and crystals to bounce into each other and create a positive charge.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
• Ice’s arrival at the turbulent turn of the millennium foreshadowed how much the rapper would shake things up in such a short time.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• Living on an island can be a breath of fresh air after the turbulent few years of a global pandemic.
  — James Barrett, ELLE Decor, 5 Apr. 2023
• As for Macron, his term runs until 2027, but, for now, his passage to that date looks distinctly turbulent.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• Beckham had a turbulent stint in Cleveland and was released midway through the 2021 season.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
• The earbuds are also excellent at staying in place, so feel free to wear them everywhere from a turbulent plane ride to the hotel gym to the trail.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
• In spots, the line of late afternoon lightning storms that swept northeastward across the region came in the company of turbulent winds.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
• United Airlines has had a turbulent month, marked by at least 11 safety incidents in the U.S.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2024
• Plus, the ginger comes in clutch for soothing any turbulent travel tummies.
  — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2024
• Hence the stereotype built around women who lived through those turbulent decades as blunt, gruff and wearing black or colorful prints and visors to keep the sun off their face.
  — Soo Youn, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The exoplanet's turbulent skies are due to a couple of factors.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
• It’s been like panning for gold in a turbulent river: Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away.
  — Andy Dunn, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024