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How to use the word tumult in a Sentence?

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Biden presented himself as an antidote to his predecessor, offering the promise of what his own campaign ads called ‘strong, steady, stable leadership’ after four years of bedlam under President Donald Trump. But the tumult surrounding the administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan offered an early glimpse of the cascade of crises that have badly eroded Biden’s image of restoring calm.

Washington Post

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm not going to sit here in 2021 and pre-judge all this. I voted for Donald Trump in'16 and in' 20. On election night in' 20, I said that what Donald Trump was doing was absolutely horrible and wrong and continued to be. You can draw whatever conclusions from that you want. But in the end, in 2021, the idea of making predictions for 2024 is folly, there's no reason to create tumult in a party that already has a lot of tumult in it.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's no reason to create tumult in a party that already has a lot of tumult in it.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No one wants any economic tumult to sack this recovery, whatever happens, there will be intervention to assure there's no economic pain.

Vis Raghavan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our immediate concern is whether the AQR and the stress test are sensible and do not go overboard with negativity because of the recent tumult, as long as the treatment of the institutions is fair and not based on wild assumptions, then in principle many of us would be prepared to participate in a rights offering.

Wilbur Ross

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Georges Bataille

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

Dante Alighieri

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
12 years ago

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared; all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Seneca

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

added by anonymous
14 years ago

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

George Gordon Byron

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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