7 example sentences using tempest.
Tempest used in a sentence
Tempest in a sentence as a noun
This is still a tempest in a teapot, ignore it.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
TechCrunch seems to brew a tempest in a teacup about twice a year; how would that not affect their investments?
Summary of this tempest:Girl applies to join a "job bank" email group in Cleveland, in order to find a job.
Someone please explain how this isn't a Reddit-esque tempest in a teapot?Sure, it's silly, but getting angry over it?
So it's all tempest in a teapot, like so many "scandalous" things that land on HN these days... Being able to change a user's password is quite normal.
"Give me your tired, your poor,\n Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,\n The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\n Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,\n I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Tempest definitions
a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
See also: storm
(literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"