Roiling definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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The Commission will assess the value, without appeal or arbitration, of the property and rights ceded under the Armistice, and under the Treaty,--roiling-stock, the mercantile marine, river craft, cattle, the Saar mines, the property in ceded territory for which credit is to be given, and so forth 7.

—The Economic Consequences of the Peace

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(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence

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Her head spinning and her stomach roiling, she collapsed on a concrete step, fighting a wave of gin-induced nausea. — AHMM,Jan-Feb2006
Stomach roiling, she closed her fist around the sword's hilt. — The Flight of the Wren
But the roiling, vulgar, sometimes glamorous, oddly cozy world o/the Garment District with its vast herds of clothing racks and huge department stores catering to a mass clientele is fading away. — F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
The screen showed nothing save a vague and barely discernible roiling, an indication of the local storm pattern. — dummyblind
The smoke thickened the closer she got, until she was walking through low-roiling clouds of it thick enough to make her stifle a cough, and soon enough she saw why. — The Warslayer