The river's roiling current. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Then you had Watergate, so there was turbulence and all this sort of sense of the country kind of roiling all the time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007] Reference
Those on Wall Street had used their usual instrument - fear of 'roiling' the markets. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
She rests her hand contentedly on her roiling abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Puppy Love] Reference
The resulting investigation is now roiling the U.S. Army. From Wordnik.com. [Rape In The Ranks] Reference
But the debate roiling in Washington is not just for show. From Wordnik.com. [So Now What, Mr. President?] Reference
But the interior is a constantly roiling emotional battlefield. From Wordnik.com. [Visions From a Vanishing World] Reference
The phenomenon is roiling war-weary countries like El Salvador. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Now the focus has turned to the labor tensions roiling the country. From Wordnik.com. [Strike Hampers South African Growth] Reference
Constitution is already roiling the waters of the Buchananite right. From Wordnik.com. [The Fight Inside The Tent] Reference
The union ship continues to ride, untroubled, high on the roiling seas. From Wordnik.com. [A Three-Point Plan For Reforming Public Employment] Reference
Most of the roads are not paved, and they rut and rise like a roiling sea. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Half-Brother Lives A World Apart] Reference
This time it is fears about the U.S. economy that are roiling the euro zone. From Wordnik.com. [The Trans-Atlantic Contagion Trade] Reference
If there's one constant in the tech world, it is roiling, disorienting change. From Wordnik.com. [Big Bucks, Big Thinker] Reference
His company, Senate, sells clothes, wheels, wrenches -- and profits are roiling in. From Wordnik.com. [The Century Club] Reference
Playing in front of the home crowd, a roiling sea of red, was not going to be easy. From Wordnik.com. [Predictably Unpredictable] Reference
It has also exposed with unusual honesty and courage the roiling politics of abortion. From Wordnik.com. [On 'Friday Night Lights,' a brave and honest abortion story] Reference
The country is restless but not roiling, with the real action in business and technology. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Stakes In November] Reference
But the real stars -- those roiling, raging tornadoes -- still need their final touchups. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Illusions] Reference
Take the nettlesome issue of "smalls" versus "bigs," now roiling the waters of European comity. From Wordnik.com. [Opposites Attract] Reference
They walked up to the balcony and found seats at the railing, above the roiling sea of hormones. From Wordnik.com. [Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 10: In Which A Vital Fact Is Recalled] Reference
Let's practice some forced reasonableness today on the roiling debate over embryonic stem-cell research. From Wordnik.com. [Good and Bad Arguments] Reference
Here's a warrior, taken from Homer's Iliad, of course, who's supremely arrogant yet roiling in self-loathing. From Wordnik.com. [Grecian Formula] Reference
Global economic woes gripped investors on Tuesday, roiling financial markets from Tokyo to Dublin to New York. From Wordnik.com. [Dow Industrials Fall to 7-Week Low] Reference
If so, it would be a direct result of the home-mortgage crunch, currently roiling financial markets worldwide. From Wordnik.com. [A Widening Credit Squeeze?] Reference
Its gleaming lacquer looks like roiling fire at the nose, tapering to the color of wine at the fin-shaped tail. From Wordnik.com. [An Oldie Is New Again: High-Tech Soap Box Racing] Reference
In contrast, I see glib, cynical, neurotic elite-school graduates roiling everywhere in journalism and the media. From Wordnik.com. [Notable] Reference
Some saw it as a sign that the financial contagion roiling emerging markets in late 1998 and early 1999 was hitting Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Buying American] Reference
The well-paved streets are roiling with cars -- little Paykan sedans, mostly, but also shiny Peugeots and even the odd BMW. From Wordnik.com. [Iran Follies] Reference
Herr Kleist's words were hollow and far away, muffled by the strangling embrace of the Dragon roiling through my bloodstream. From Wordnik.com. [Small Victory: the realm of pawns] Reference
First, it says to look very hard at the issues that seem to be roiling the constituency in question and winning it new adherents. From Wordnik.com. [The Goldwater Precedent] Reference
It doesn't seem to be threatening the worksite with wind and rain, but it is roiling the surface of the sea for hundreds of miles. From Wordnik.com. [Stormy Weather Could Delay Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts] Reference
The decision to take a tougher line helped resolve the geographical debate that had been roiling the campaign since early September. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Gloves] Reference
Roanne had scared her a bit, truth be told, and had also sent roiling some other emotions Michelle either couldn't or wouldn't pin down. From Wordnik.com. [Eviction] Reference
Still, Isabel was less destructive than forecasters had feared earlier in the week, when it was a roiling colossus generating 160mph winds. From Wordnik.com. [By A Tempest Tossed] Reference
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