tempestuous
Example Sentences
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Antonio Conte's tempestuous Tottenham tenure has come to an end after a predictability volatile 16 months in charge, but with none of the silverware the club gambled on when appointing the Italian.
From BBC
In the late 18th and 19th centuries, bateaux, flat-bottomed pole boats, navigated the tempestuous James, bringing cash crops such as tobacco, flour and later coal to the Eastern Seaboard.
From Washington Post
Finally, he found another historical subject for a novel, the 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, and in 2011 published a novel based on his short, tempestuous life, “Disaster Was My God.”
From Washington Post
The mild-mannered Argentine was hailed as an ideal replacement after tempestuous coach Thomas Tuchel was fired midway through last season.
From Seattle Times
Those rewards helped carry Doolaard through the final weeks of his trip, which found him exhausted and homesick, riding the tempestuous Carretera Austral across Southern Chile at the wrong time of year.
From Washington Post
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