The phrase "in a turmoil" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to be in a state of confusion or chaos. Here is an example sentence: "After the news of the company's bankruptcy, the employees were in a turmoil, unsure of what the future held for them."
He meant that the world was in a turmoil of civil wars and national liberation movements — that regimes were changing and maps were being redrawn everywhere.
This brings to the boy's mind all the anti Jewish stories he has ever heard and puts him in a turmoil.
"They have such high levels of stress and fear of the world that their poor digestive systems are always in a turmoil.
11 days out the seamen sighted what must have been the Azores, it was in a turmoil with noxious gas floating about & sholes heaving themselves out of the water.
Our hero, too, is now awash in a "turmoil of emotions": "Guy felt as if he were wallowing in the trough of the waves: not the mild ripples of the moonlit Thames, but the mountainous breakers of an ocean sea".
Achingly lovely, with golden hair and wearing a soft pink silk dress, Sally, played with a perfect mix of hard-earned composure and deeply simmering regret by Margot White, is clearly in a turmoil over Matt's sudden appearance.
Architecturally, New York is in a grand turmoil.
By Lewis Mumford Architecturally, New York is in a grand turmoil.
Unfortunately, Dr. Tchou was innocently involved in a political turmoil in 1957.
Hockney's works from those Royal College years are the products of a mind in turmoil, a talent trying to break through to something authentic.
But that cannot happen in a country in perpetual turmoil with a repressive military intent on obliterating its adversaries.
