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roils
verb as in upset
Example Sentences
Desperation roils off him like a lonely heart on a first date.
South Korea’s opposition moves to impeach the president as a deepening political crisis roils stocks and the currency.
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.
The score roils with melodic drama in the film’s prologue, which vibrantly depicts a tense heist to steal the titular piano under the cover of darkness and a Fourth of July fireworks show in Mississippi.
He said it bodes well for the species as climate change roils vast ecosystems across the planet.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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