eddy

Example Sentences

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Navigating the galleries, which spill into each other, is akin to being dizzyingly spun from eddy to eddy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like “an eddy in a river.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Temperature data from satellites and buoys revealed a large southbound eddy moving through the region, coupled with 4 days of strong easterly winds, fueled strong upwelling.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 15, 2024

They used these models to conduct fluid flow simulations that combined the methods of large eddy simulations and the Ffowcs-Williams-Hawkings analogy.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

But then he heard a rustle and saw a little eddy of dislodged snow in the bush to which Hermione had pointed.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling