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.
There is instead a shape-shifting maelstrom of quarks, and physicists can map quark distribution to estimate the proton’s size.
From Scientific American
Apparently unwitting, the group of friends from North Carolina drove their minivan straight into that maelstrom.
From BBC
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
The South African songwriter Desire Marea stirs up a maelstrom in “Be Free.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
