Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tossed about by storm or tempest: as, a storm-tossed bark; hence, agitated by conflicting passions or emotions: as, his storm-tossed spirit is at rest.

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  • adjective pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities

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Examples

  • Mr. Fumaroli makes only two small, noticeable mistakes: He attributes the great English classical scholar Richard Bentley to Oxford he was, in truth, a Cambridge man and he confuses "Greek fire"—the weapon invented by the Byzantines to destroy enemy fleets—with "St. Elmo's fire," a climatic phenomenon that plays harmlessly around the mastheads of storm-tossed ships.

    Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011

  • Caithe turned back to the archway as images flashed, one after another: a desolate tundra . . . a deep-hewn canyon . . . a storm-tossed sea.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she hoped to offer some comfort to victims while touring the storm-tossed region Friday.

    Huge Australia storm spawns terror but no deaths 2011

  • Trapeze artists fly between poles on board a storm-tossed ship, acrobats go whirling past in giant wheels, and a scarlet-clad corps de ballet performs a hat-dance of fiendish complexity, culminating in a tongue-in-cheek series of fouettés.

    Swan Lake – review 2011

  • In those hours when my life is storm-tossed and wind-battered, the light around me shines bright with hope shielded by her hurricane spirit.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • Odyssey is more than a journey into the art of storytelling; it makes a writer face cyclopean fears, buffeted by storm-tossed critiques, finally to find shore in a more confident structure and passionate style.

    The 2009 Experience odysseyworkshop 2009

  • In those hours when my life is storm-tossed and wind-battered, the light around me shines bright with hope shielded by her hurricane spirit.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011

  • Because they have not read crucial work in Spanish, Mr. Bergreen and Ms. Delaney misrepresent Columbus's motive—which was social ambition, inspired in part by his self-modeling on fictional heroes such as the Alexander of a Spanish metrical romance, who discovered India by sea, or the storm-tossed protagonist of the Romance of the Cavalier.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • With shades of The Tempest in its storm-tossed opening and a central character called Prosper a homeless man in search of himself and his lost history, A Few Man Fridays is a fiction – but one that's very much based on documentary evidence and interviews, as it reveals a grubby story of secrecy, deceit, colonial attitudes and collusion.

    Stolen island: the shameful story of Diego Garcia hits the stage 2012

  • Caithe turned back to the archway as images flashed, one after another: a desolate tundra . . . a deep-hewn canyon . . . a storm-tossed sea.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

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