vortical

Example Sentences

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“A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community. The jitters were setting in,” she writes.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 26, 2019

But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old man, interpreted with earthy humor and shining grace by Bokuzen Hidari, is the vortical figure in the film.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adj. rotating &c. v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory†, trochilic†, vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

But he entertained absurd ideas of the vortical motion of the heavens whisking stones into the sky, there to be ignited by the fiery firmament to form stars.

From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George