spinning
Example Sentences
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Mars is constantly swept by winds that lift fine dust into spinning whirlwinds known as dust devils.
From Science Daily
Tiny fluctuations in brightness reveal that the star may have collided and merged with another star long ago, a violent event that likely left it spinning much faster than normal.
From Science Daily
Yet Mike and Claire embrace the cheese, luxuriate in it, like toddlers spinning around deliriously in their first snowfall.
These partnerships usually entail taking businesses private or spinning off noncore assets.
Unseasonably high temperatures even left the impressive array of high-tech artificial-snow makers below mostly useless, their fans spinning idly in the warm breeze.
From Los Angeles Times
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