maelstrom
Example Sentences
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In Wales - a bigger test in a maelstrom and a test passed.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
The country of 52 million, with the world’s No. 14 economy, has emerged from the maelstrom of 2025 in a geoeconomic sweet spot.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
By morning, the clouds parted, and we found we survived the meteorological maelstrom relatively intact.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Her wet clothes and gear dragged at her, but just as her lungs were about to burst, she broke the surface into the maelstrom.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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