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Meanings of storm-tossed in English
Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.
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Examples for "buffeted"
Examples for "buffeted"
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Since October, the royal family has been buffeted by crisis after crisis.
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Modi, meanwhile, is being buffeted by a jobs crisis and farm distress.
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People swore at him; they got in his way; they buffeted him.
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Severe winds buffeted the state on Thursday, bringing down powerlines and trees.
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Focus is difficult when we are buffeted by competing desires to help.
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They encountered vile weather and tempest-tossed seas off the South American coast.
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He fancied in his troubled dreams that he saw their ship tempest-tossed.
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Come along, Poor Mercantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!'
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The view to the southward resembled a tempest-tossed ocean suddenly frozen.
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Why be troubled and tempest-tossed when the haven of Peace of God is yours!
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The flowers at its feet bowed their heads, while the winds wafted their fragrance over the struggling, tempest-tost tree.
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She was seen standing into the mouth of the Seine, shattered and crippled, bearing marks of having been sadly tempest-tost.
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Divine moment, when over the tempest-tost Soul, as once over the wild-weltering Chaos, it is spoken: Let there be Light!
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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 storm-tossed in English
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Quietly he took his stand by the side of the storm-tossed vessel.
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We were three storm-tossed days afloat before the helicopter picked us up.
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It begins with a grand, terrifying funeral march, and a storm-tossed scherzo.
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Maria Theresa felt that her heart was all too storm-tossed for prayer.
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What a Canaan those weary, storm-tossed colonists must have thought it all!
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Without society, we would be storm-tossed on the barbarous sea that is nature.
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Nay, nay, only storm-tossed on the treacherous seas of the world.
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Yet even when storm-tossed the scene had its own peculiar charm.
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Soon the streak had become a stream of dancing, storm-tossed water.
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Alone, like a storm-tossed wreck, on this night of the glad New Year
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But her eyes showed him only glimpses of a storm-tossed soul.
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You were like doves sent from a storm-tossed ark to seek for land.
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To that same haven of rest they still pilot the world's storm-tossed mariners.
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Does it not prefigure the wayward and fantastic progress of a storm-tossed life?
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The whole surface of the city heaved like the swell of a storm-tossed sea.
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The bubble had become a blooming horror sailing slowly westward above the storm-tossed Atlantic.