WordNet
adj. pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities [syn: buffeted, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept]
Usage examples of "storm-tossed".
The fingers of one hand idly stroked the fretwork on a Chinese Chippendale table, and her insides foundered like the storm-tossed boat in the painting.
The control panel shrank under his hands, then swelled and heaved like a storm-tossed sea.
The gray slouch hat was like a beacon calling to the storm-tossed mariner adrift on the heaving and pitiless seas of New York.
Jefferson was fond of images of storm-tossed seas and employed them often, as he did now, though in his own travels at sea he himself had known only smooth sailing.
In 1916, after seventeen months of fighting the cruelesi conditions imaginable-which included a grueling trek across the pack-ice, two voyages in tiny, whaleboat-size craft over a storm-tossed Southern Ocean, and a terrifying hike across the jagged peaks of South Georgia-Shackleton finally reached a whaling station and safety, then returned to rescue those he had left behind on Elephant Island.
The scent of sweet wine and spices and the salt-smell of Corley's sodden woollens faded slowly from perception as she cast her call outward, over leagues of storm-tossed ocean toward the Kielmark's stronghold on Cliffhaven.