dervish-like
- a word derived from dervish.
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
Concerto for Piano�Four Hands, by Philadelphia's Teacher-Composer Vincent Persichetti, starts off in a tortured, plodding style, goes on to crank out some astonishing, dervish-like activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The room beyond boiled with the dervish-like whirling of the dancers.
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
