Thesaurus / swirl
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Another strong offering is “Wave Relief,” a wall piece whose incised, blue-tinted swirls are the show’s closest thing to representational imagery.
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The stuffed breast slices up with a swirl of cranberry throughout.
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Because the sanding disk travels in a random elliptical motion, it won’t leave swirl patterns on surfaces and it isn’t as affected by the direction of the wood grain.
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HSBC now risks being caught in deepening turmoil after a swirl of trouble over the past year amid political unrest and an economic slump in its biggest market, Hong Kong.
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Of course since 2018, there’s been a swirl of new ways to go public.
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But here was one mighty wave that was always itself, and every fluted swirl of it, constant as the wreathing of a shell.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
He knew that Myra had been carried this way and that in the great, cruel, indifferent swirl that was life.
THE HIDDEN PLACESBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
What if the dust did swirl up in blinding sheets from the south?
THE LION'S BROODDUFFIELD OSBORNE
The swirl of the current swept him into the shallower stream below.
THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
He was trapped in a blinding swirl of radiance, with darkness above it.
THE STATUS CIVILIZATIONROBERT SHECKLEY
WORDS RELATED TO SWIRL
- alternate
- be in sequence
- bowl
- circle
- circumduct
- coil
- curve
- drape
- drive
- eddy
- elapse
- enfold
- entwine
- envelop
- flow
- fold
- follow
- furl
- go around
- go past
- gyrate
- gyre
- impel
- pass
- pirouette
- pivot
- propel
- reel
- rock
- rotate
- run
- spin
- spiral
- succeed
- swaddle
- swathe
- swing around
- swirl
- swivel
- trundle
- twirl
- twist
- undulate
- wheel
- whirl
- wind
- wrap
- about-face
- aim
- alter
- alternate
- backslide
- call off
- capsize
- change
- change position
- convert
- curve
- depart
- detour
- detract
- deviate
- digress
- direct
- diverge
- double back
- face about
- go back
- incline
- inverse
- invert
- loop
- move
- pivot
- rechannel
- recoil
- redirect
- regress
- relapse
- retrace
- return
- revert
- sheer
- shift
- shunt
- shy away
- sidetrack
- subvert
- sway
- swerve
- swing
- swirl
- switch
- tack
- transform
- twist
- upset
- vary
- veer
- volte-face
- wheel
- whip
- whirl
- zigzag
- about-face
- aim
- alter
- alternate
- backslide
- call off
- capsize
- change
- change position
- convert
- curve
- depart
- detour
- detract
- deviate
- digress
- direct
- diverge
- double back
- face about
- go back
- incline
- inverse
- invert
- loop
- move
- pivot
- rechannel
- recoil
- redirect
- regress
- relapse
- retrace
- return
- revert
- sheer
- shift
- shunt
- shy away
- sidetrack
- subvert
- sway
- swerve
- swing
- swirl
- switch
- tack
- transform
- twist
- upset
- vary
- veer
- volte-face
- wheel
- whip
- whirl
- zigzag
- about-face
- aim
- alter
- alternate
- backslide
- call off
- capsize
- change
- change position
- convert
- curve
- depart
- detour
- detract
- deviate
- digress
- direct
- diverge
- double back
- face about
- go back
- incline
- inverse
- invert
- loop
- move
- pivot
- rechannel
- recoil
- redirect
- regress
- relapse
- retrace
- return
- revert
- sheer
- shift
- shunt
- shy away
- sidetrack
- subvert
- sway
- swerve
- swing
- swirl
- switch
- tack
- transform
- twist
- upset
- vary
- veer
- volte-face
- wheel
- whip
- whirl
- zigzag
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