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-tossed
adjective
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.