How to Use roil in a Sentence

roil

verb
  • Financial markets have been roiled by the banking crisis.
  • These words alone have roiled the few cities bold enough to utter them.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 15 July 2019
  • For Brown, the project proves an antidote to, or refuge from, the roiling agon of our times.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • Hong Kong has been roiled by protests against the policies set in Beijing.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 16 July 2019
  • Water should be brought to a roiling boil and then kept there for at least a minute.
    — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 19 July 2019
  • The show brings up the issues that have roiled our shared culture in the years that followed the album.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In New Hampshire, a town has been roiled for months over that question.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Expect a whole lot of yelling, a roiling sea of mosh pits and enough bass to deafen all of L.A. Live.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • As Brexit roils the country, at least there are some lessons Britain can still teach.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Only the 1930s, roiled by the Great Depression, saw a slower growth rate.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Crime, street sense and the status quo roil the mind of a teenager in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The smooth, polished trip came amid a roiling news cycle.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In the latest wave to roil the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Back in San Antonio, Parscale’s work for Trump had roiled his firm.
    — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Tokyo Games as the pandemic continues to roil the world.
    — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • When protests roiled Columbia, the school closed its campus to the public.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • His brush with death had fazed him less than his roiling dope sickness.
    — Wired, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Other people dressed in bulky rain gear had ventured out to take in views of the roiling ocean waves.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The violence Monday at The Covenant School is the latest school shooting to roil the nation.
    — Jonathan Mattise, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The city has been roiled with water supply problems since 2014.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The hostilities have sparked fears of a civil war that could roil the entire Horn of Africa.
    — Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The election was always going to roil the markets, and not just on election night.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 8 July 2020
  • In other words, the party is already roiled in a public, weeks-long fight.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • The deal is sure roil some consumer advocates who have warned against the merger.
    — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Bitter debates over the lack of public access to the Sutter Buttes have roiled for years.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
  • Even if the effect is minor, the fear of contagion will roil U.S. markets for at least a while.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Amid the roiling crowd, five men crawled toward a candlelit dais, where a white-robed priest stood holding an axe.
    — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Each of these polygons measures at least 3.7 miles across and consists of roiling ice.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • After inching down in the first months of the year, mortgage rates have jumped higher in the last couple weeks, as President Trump's tariff threats have roiled bond markets that help influence mortgage rates.
    — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
  • President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have been roiling markets and raising recession fears.
    — Paul Davidson, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025

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