Showing results for awhirl. Search instead for Ighfirli.

awhirl

American

[uh-hwurl, uh-wurl] / əˈʰwɜrl, əˈwɜrl /

adjective

rotating rapidly; spinning; whirling (usually used predicatively).

dancers awhirl to the strains of a lively waltz.

Etymology

Origin of awhirl

First recorded in 1880–85; a- ¹ + whirl

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

One of the young women spoke animatedly, hands awhirl as she bantered with her lawyers during a recess.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2017

We’re off and away by then, following a mind awhirl in creative reverie.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2015

She drove to Mobile and then drove back again, her mind awhirl with the sort of not very interesting observations that so often pass through the minds of characters in unpublished fiction.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2015

The head spins with options, because Chekhov’s sly and subtle plays are awhirl with all these human contradictions, and beautifully so, when they work.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2015

As she rode through woods and streams and heather, her brain was awhirl.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023