vortex

Example Sentences

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And this, apparently, was what Hesterfowl was inspecting, stopping every so often to peer with a beady eye into a tiny blue vortex.

From Literature

While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.

From The Wall Street Journal

The magnons transfer some of their energy to the vortex core, causing it to move in a tiny circular path around its center.

From Science Daily

She just didn’t realize that she herself was going to get swept up into its vortex.

From Salon

This is just one of a host of ways environmental decisions are being sucked into the vortex that is Europe's energy debate.

From BBC