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Meanings of buffeted in English
Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.
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Examples for "tempest-tossed"
Examples for "tempest-tossed"
1
They encountered vile weather and tempest-tossed seas off the South American coast.
2
He fancied in his troubled dreams that he saw their ship tempest-tossed.
3
Come along, Poor Mercantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!'
4
The view to the southward resembled a tempest-tossed ocean suddenly frozen.
5
Why be troubled and tempest-tossed when the haven of Peace of God is yours!
1
Quietly he took his stand by the side of the storm-tossed vessel.
2
We were three storm-tossed days afloat before the helicopter picked us up.
3
It begins with a grand, terrifying funeral march, and a storm-tossed scherzo.
4
Maria Theresa felt that her heart was all too storm-tossed for prayer.
5
What a Canaan those weary, storm-tossed colonists must have thought it all!
1
The flowers at its feet bowed their heads, while the winds wafted their fragrance over the struggling, tempest-tost tree.
2
She was seen standing into the mouth of the Seine, shattered and crippled, bearing marks of having been sadly tempest-tost.
3
Divine moment, when over the tempest-tost Soul, as once over the wild-weltering Chaos, it is spoken: Let there be Light!
4
The soldier, tempest-tost, hears it through the creaking cordage, and every true heart knows its brother, and takes up the magnificent strain,-victorious ,triumphant ,exultant,
Usage of buffeted in English
1
Since October, the royal family has been buffeted by crisis after crisis.
2
Modi, meanwhile, is being buffeted by a jobs crisis and farm distress.
3
People swore at him; they got in his way; they buffeted him.
4
Severe winds buffeted the state on Thursday, bringing down powerlines and trees.
5
Focus is difficult when we are buffeted by competing desires to help.
6
There was no sound except that the wind buffeted in the chimney.
7
I have been buffeted by the ages until I dominate the desert.
8
I'm being buffeted in the wind of sociological forces I can't control.
9
Yet the specter's robe rippled, buffeted by a draft that wasn't there.
10
As they slowed to cross a long bridge, wind buffeted the van.
11
I fought and buffeted the wind, and folded my cloak round me.
12
They are also being buffeted by conflicting advice from influential conservative organizations.
13
Strong winds blew in from the bay and buffeted the competitors unmercifully.
14
More explosions sounded, and the craft was buffeted from side to side.
15
He was swimming bravely, sorely buffeted as he was by the seas.
16
The wind buffeted him, and he could not manage on his own.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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