- present participle of gyrate.
gyrating
Example Sentences
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In the fog of war, precise data is scarce and the battlefield is shifting too fast for investors, leading to gyrating oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
“Sexistential” presents both sides of a modern mother’s Venn diagram, with Robyn gyrating in its overlapping middle, inviting us to her party.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
Catta-Preta’s fireball energy delivers loud laughs, dancing, singing, gyrating and serving up humor in two languages — there seems to be nothing this fiery Brazilian can’t do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Keep going: roller skaters gyrating gracefully or wildly to disco music.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
There he crouched with heavy-lidded, unseeing eyes, not asleep, not awake, not dead, not alive, still as a stone, gyrating with the world.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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