Example Sentences

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His large collage drawing surrounds images cut from anatomy books with whirling dervish-like lines.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2021

It's a novel about dance that ends with a major character, Tracy, herself a lapsed professional dancer, joyously whirling dervish-like with her children.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2018

Dr. White was, in the description of Time magazine, “as dervish-like as the environment he has set out to control.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2015

Basically, he is a swarming, dervish-like flailer who leaves ringside observers arguing about which was the actual knockout punch.

From Time Magazine Archive

The room beyond boiled with the dervish-like whirling of the dancers.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield