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Definition of storm-tossed in English: storm-tossedadjective Exposed to or characterized by strong winds and rain. a boat on storm-tossed seas the wet and storm-tossed winter months figurative the storm-tossed politics of recent years Example sentencesExamples - I had made my escape from Alcatraz, survived the storm-tossed Irish sea, and was back in civilisation, or a decent approximation thereof.
- His eyes were a dark, smoldering blue, like the color of a deep, storm-tossed ocean.
- Two Plexiglas dioramas of a boat on storm-tossed seas depicted Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated South Pole expedition of 1914.
- Think of a captain on a storm-tossed ship, desperate to find land.
- This section of southwest Oregon has many long, deserted stretches of sand, with storm-tossed shores good for beachcombing.
- The weekend's unseasonably cool weather and storm-tossed surf kept most beach-goers away.
- Anne, who loved the sea in all of its many moods, looked out at the storm-tossed harbour longingly.
- Alex sends up some more flares, and Scott finally manages to locate him and drag him aboard the storm-tossed boat.
- Becalmed or storm-tossed, the view from the gallery's large windows is spectacular in any season.
- A British sailor survived on a liferaft for three nights in a storm-tossed sea without food or drinking water after his boat sank off Spain's Balearic Islands.
Definition of storm-tossed in US English: storm-tossedadjective Exposed to or characterized by strong winds and rain. a boat on storm-tossed seas figurative the storm-tossed politics of recent years since the sea is storm-tossed, some lifeboats occasionally sink Example sentencesExamples - Think of a captain on a storm-tossed ship, desperate to find land.
- Anne, who loved the sea in all of its many moods, looked out at the storm-tossed harbour longingly.
- Becalmed or storm-tossed, the view from the gallery's large windows is spectacular in any season.
- This section of southwest Oregon has many long, deserted stretches of sand, with storm-tossed shores good for beachcombing.
- I had made my escape from Alcatraz, survived the storm-tossed Irish sea, and was back in civilisation, or a decent approximation thereof.
- The weekend's unseasonably cool weather and storm-tossed surf kept most beach-goers away.
- Alex sends up some more flares, and Scott finally manages to locate him and drag him aboard the storm-tossed boat.
- Two Plexiglas dioramas of a boat on storm-tossed seas depicted Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated South Pole expedition of 1914.
- A British sailor survived on a liferaft for three nights in a storm-tossed sea without food or drinking water after his boat sank off Spain's Balearic Islands.
- His eyes were a dark, smoldering blue, like the color of a deep, storm-tossed ocean.
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