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Meanings of tempest-tossed in English

Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.

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Examples for "buffeted"
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Since October, the royal family has been buffeted by crisis after crisis.
News.com.au
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Modi, meanwhile, is being buffeted by a jobs crisis and farm distress.
Reuters
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People swore at him; they got in his way; they buffeted him.
Neverwhere
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Severe winds buffeted the state on Thursday, bringing down powerlines and trees.
News.com.au
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Focus is difficult when we are buffeted by competing desires to help.
The Power of Giving
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Quietly he took his stand by the side of the storm-tossed vessel.
The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3
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We were three storm-tossed days afloat before the helicopter picked us up.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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It begins with a grand, terrifying funeral march, and a storm-tossed scherzo.
Radio NZ
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Maria Theresa felt that her heart was all too storm-tossed for prayer.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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What a Canaan those weary, storm-tossed colonists must have thought it all!
Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway,...
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The flowers at its feet bowed their heads, while the winds wafted their fragrance over the struggling, tempest-tost tree.
Allegories of Life
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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.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
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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!
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
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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,
Gala-Days
Usage of tempest-tossed in English
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They encountered vile weather and tempest-tossed seas off the South American coast.
Wired
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He fancied in his troubled dreams that he saw their ship tempest-tossed.
The Voyages of the "Ranger" and "Crusader" / And what befell the...
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Come along, Poor Mercantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!'
The Uncommercial Traveller
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The view to the southward resembled a tempest-tossed ocean suddenly frozen.
A Man's Woman
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Why be troubled and tempest-tossed when the haven of Peace of God is yours!
The Way of Peace
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I heard a song of deepest passion surging like the tempest-tossed waves of the sea.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales / "The fiddle and the bow," "The paradi...
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The gallant Somers was doomed again to be tempest-tossed.
Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies
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We were tempest-tossed and storm-torn, as the poets say.
The Great Book of Amber
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Jan. 15-What a tempest-tossed creature this birthday finds me.
Stepping Heavenward
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Kossuth called himself "a tempest-tossed soul, whose eyes have been sharpened by affliction."
Pushing to the Front
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He was like a ship that had been driven hither and thither, tempest-tossed and in danger.
Barriers Burned Away
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The tempest-tossed, sinful man lay listening to them for a minute or two, half asleep yet.
Cobwebs and Cables
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Instead there were only the tempest-tossed woodlands below.
Nevermore
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Ah, yes; weary as the lonely mariner, tempest-tossed on some pathless ocean, without chart or compass.
Beulah
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When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder!
The Last Man
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Earth and sand were pouring through this fissure, at the bottom of which surged the tempest-tossed waves
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
Tempest-tossed through the time