Example Sentences

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It’s fast-paced fun where servers are whirling around filling coffee and replenishing cocktails while plopping down plates of shrimp and grits and French toast topped with a dollop of Luxardo whipped cream.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2023

At Aweil Civil Hospital, fans are whirling overhead, and patients lie on almost bare beds covering themselves with pieces of traditional cloth, known as kitenge.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2022

This angle has an outsize influence on estimates of just how fast things are whirling about within a far-off galaxy.

From Scientific American • Dec. 22, 2021

Noël Coward, considering their success, ponders tartly, “Perhaps we are whirling more swiftly into extinction than we know.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2020

So many ideas are whirling through my head that I feel a little dizzy.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar