They tend to work loose, especially in turbulent currents like this.

Funneled up the long gorge, compressed and screaming to get free, the turbulent currents tore at the cliff.

These turbulent currents and coutercurrents make the passage tricky even for modern ships.

Fire roiled crazily around them and below them in the turbulent currents of weightless air.

This could be turbulent currents of liquid water.

She wasn't upset with Marty, exactly, but with God or fate or whatever force had suddenly brought turbulent currents into their smoothly flowing lives.

His gaze was oil-smooth with turbulent currents beneath.

A turbulent current of emotion seared her as it rolled over her.

So ran the turbulent current of my mind.

This is the case with the Earth's magnetic field, which is generated by turbulent currents in a viscous outer core.