tempest
IPA: tˈɛmpʌst
noun
- A storm, especially one with severe winds.
- Any violent tumult or commotion.
- (obsolete) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To storm.
- (transitive, chiefly poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
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Examples of "tempest" in Sentences
- I'll pray for thy peace, tho 'the tempest is shaking
- Clodius -- he called the tempest which swelled his sails. "
- So, in that sense, the tempest is a manufactured one, not the split.
- The reason he gives is, For I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
- This tempest comes from the hand of an offended justice, and therefore they have reason to fear it will go hard with them.
- And what wonderful melodies did she play on it when the winds of heaven blew about her and the mountain tempest thundered and the great stars stayed to listen?
- 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
- Continually the tempest is shot through with the leaping lightning and crashing thunder, like steady cannonading, echoing and reechoing, roaring through the vast empty spaces of the heavens.
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