maelstrom

Example Sentences

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“History” is a major player in this breathless narrative, as in “gales of history,” “maelstrom of history,” “winds of history,” “tide of history” and the “frenetic pace of history”—all within a few dozen pages.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is instead a shape-shifting maelstrom of quarks, and physicists can map quark distribution to estimate the proton’s size.

From Scientific American

The onslaught has swept Albania, a Balkan nation with fewer than three million people, into a maelstrom of uncertainty and plunged it into big geopolitical battles involving Iran, Israel and the United States.

From New York Times

Instead, he now faces a domestic political maelstrom just ahead of his State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday.

From Seattle Times

The massive white orb drifting across across U.S. airspace has triggered a diplomatic maelstrom and is blowing up on social media.

From Washington Times