eddy
Example Sentences
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He exhaled; the mist eddied, choking and acrid.
From Literature
“It’s a little bit like if you're kayaking in a river, and there's rocks underneath the water, sometimes there's eddies in the surface, which can tell you about the rocks under the water,” explained Ockenden.
From BBC
Wind rustles the changing leaves, and some loose ones—brown, yellow, reddish-green—flutter down, swirling in little eddies of air.
From Literature
The sources of our malaise are deeper than the shallow eddies of fashion and entertainment in “Blank Space.”
Its brief, exquisite melody glides in like a slow tide, and eventually releases into eddies of improvisation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
