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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

“That is keeping equities from gyrating too much.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

The team dressed in Santa hats and reindeer antlers, throwing the slowly gyrating microphone to each other to speak while candy canes floated around their heads.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

At its height, and after gyrating through a verse or two of “Confessions,” Usher brought forth an HBCU-style marching band and drumline in formation, spelling out his name.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2024

At a formal dinner once a professor of some science or other, wanting to make small talk, had pointed out a few insects gyrating above a candelabra.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan