tempest-tossed

or tem·pest-tost

[ tem-pist-tawst, -tost ]

adjective

1. buffeted about, as by adversities.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tempest-tossed¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

The Republic had proved an utter failure, and France was but a tempest-tossed ocean of anarchy.

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All along our coast the Government has built massive and strong light-houses to guide and warn the tempest-tossed mariner.

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But they are not daunted—every one of the men has stood on the main truck of a tempest-tossed ship.

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Tempest-tossed mariners would invoke her intercession, when she would appear to them and the storm would subside.

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After that, they drifted into talk of the future, rather than driving stormily into the teeth of it, like tempest-tossed leaves.

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