- present tense form of roil (3rd person singular).
roils
Example Sentences
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“When the consequences of a geopolitical crisis roils oil markets and bruises the bond market, it is only a matter of time before equities get hit,” Brooks of XTB added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
What Whitehead dubs the “churn” roils the city and his protagonist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It roils the markets,” he said, adding that it unsettles both investors and the legal framework surrounding the Fed.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
Erebus is only a 20-minute helicopter ride from McMurdo, so since the 1960s scientists have studied the volcano and the lava lake that roils within its caldera, occasionally tossing out “bombs” of molten rock.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
The Sun caught the Spires of the South End, the gray Water that roils under the Docks, the Grasses on Beacon Hill; & all was in Motion & Ferment.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
