tempestuously

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Outside, the briny tang of windswept sea air, the North Sea swirling tempestuously below.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024

At just 19, she married Sir Peter Scott, the son of Captain Scott of the Antarctic and went on to marry twice more, most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2014

“There is nothing that’s more important in democracy than a well-informed electorate,” she says tempestuously.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2012

This entailed slashing one’s shirt to the waist in a gypsy-ish fashion, and biting the air tempestuously, as if catching flies.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2012

After a very hot summer the bright weather changed to clouded skies on the 2nd of October, rain fell tempestuously the same evening, and there were showery days and nights till the 14th.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various