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

The group of scientists wondered if it was possible to make, and hold, medium-size eddies -- neither one big eddy, nor smaller and smaller ones.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan