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  • verb Present participle of tempest.

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Examples

  • He thought of the girl's little light serge jacket and shivered visibly as they turned into another street where vacant lots on one side left a wide sweep for the wind and sent it tempesting along freighted with dust and stinging bits of sand.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • Never before did we come across such an amount of energetic and tremendous words, going “sounding on their dim and perilous way,” like a cataract at midnight — not flowing like a stream, nor leaping like a clear waterfall, but always among breakers — roaring and tearing and tempesting with a sort of transcendental din; and then what power of energizing and speaking, and philosophizing and preaching, and laughing and joking and love-making,

    Spare Hours John Brown 1846

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