whirl

Example Sentences

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You know the one: Mary Richards, smiling brightly amid the herd gathered at a crowded Minneapolis intersection, suddenly whirls and flings her tam-o’-shanter into the air.

From Salon

The boat whirled away from the apartment building, away from the stretching, yelling Marcus and Derek, and in seconds they and all the others had disappeared in the dark, pounding rain.

From Literature

The video also whirls through black-and-white landscapes of created objects—paper trees, a cardboard strip mine, a mirror lake.

From The Wall Street Journal

My head whirls like a leaf in a stream, but I force my paws to pull me forward.

From Literature

A year after the fire, my mind whirls between nostalgia and today’s reality, where I’ve straddled the roles of reporter and heartbroken Altadenan.

From Los Angeles Times