Roiling is an English word with synonyms like churning or roiled. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Roiling meaning
present participle and gerund of roil
Using Roiling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of roil
- Useful related words include: churning, roiled, roily, turbulent.
- In the example corpus, roiling often appears in combinations such as: roiling the, the roiling, still roiling.
Context around Roiling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Roiling
- In this selection, "roiling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, exposed, similar, flows, resentment, surface and divisions stand out and add context to how "roiling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a roiling pot of and a similar roiling over its. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "roiling" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with roiling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Though his immediate family survived, a brother was killed in the roiling sea. (13 words)
Just after the eruption, Black Diamond Pool exhibited minor roiling and water spouting. (13 words)
The assassination attempt is roiling the presidential campaign and leading to finger-pointing. (13 words)
Yemen's Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a U.S. fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said. (48 words)
Forbes Burnham and Cheddi Jagan were both seen as heroes and as effigies, depending on the persuasions and passions of those involved, which side of the divide they stood in worshipful homage, or roiling resentment. (35 words)
The Southern Baptist Convention is theologically and politically conservative, and it has undergone a similar roiling over its values and identity since the election of Donald Trump as the Republican Party has in recent years. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Change is messy; the National Gallery is still roiling in chaos as it undoes calcified habits.
Forbes Burnham and Cheddi Jagan were both seen as heroes and as effigies, depending on the persuasions and passions of those involved, which side of the divide they stood in worshipful homage, or roiling resentment.
His genius was to foist himself on US by appealing to the latent cruelty that's always been burbling away beneath America's roiling surface.
Recent events have exposed roiling divisions over local politics and the newspaper’s aggressive coverage.
The Southern Baptist Convention is theologically and politically conservative, and it has undergone a similar roiling over its values and identity since the election of Donald Trump as the Republican Party has in recent years.
Though his immediate family survived, a brother was killed in the roiling sea.
Today, Hyde explained that the exchange centered on finding a solution to migration flows roiling two continents.
Van Fleet details countless other parallels with rich personal anecdotes, but perhaps the most frightening example — particularly in light of the pro-Hamas protests currently roiling American college campuses — is that of the Red Guard.
A roiling pot of disinformation is not the recipe for good faith self-governing.
He captured roiling clouds above the river and lurid sunsets behind the tree-carpeted slopes and sharp peaks of the Catskill Mountains that march into the distance.
Iran remains locked in the Mideast wars roiling the region, and its leaders have threatened a retaliatory strike after Israel’s Oct. 26 attack.
Just after the eruption, Black Diamond Pool exhibited minor roiling and water spouting.
Rather than static and impassive, Livia is a coiled spring, roiling with desires and frustrations, with the fury of having to live a life too often defined by its limitations.
Setting aside how offensive and stomach-roiling it is to hear that phrase out of Trump’s mouth, the claim that Republicans are good on IVF couldn’t be more false.
The assassination attempt is roiling the presidential campaign and leading to finger-pointing.
Yemen's Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a U.S. fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said.
The recent reckoning over racism and inequality – roiling the nation following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis – has only added to that pressure.
Trump has turned a simple piece of cloth designed to insulate from a global pandemic into the latest symbol in a roiling culture war.
However, this statement didn’t stop the issue from fuelling a political controversy that’s already roiling India.
Just when you expect to start winding down, Big Thief unleashes a roiling six-minute barnburner.
Common combinations with roiling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- roiling the 9×
- the roiling 3×
- still roiling 2×
- roiling in 2×
- roiling american 2×