Example Sentences
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“It’s a little bit like if you're kayaking in a river, and there's rocks underneath the water, sometimes there's eddies in the surface, which can tell you about the rocks under the water,” explained Ockenden.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
Its brief, exquisite melody glides in like a slow tide, and eventually releases into eddies of improvisation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Understanding how fish swim in eddies could also aid in habitat restoration, the team says, helping conservationists engineer more efficient fish passages through dams.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 5, 2024
They start out at roughly the size of the length of the bottle; then the eddies split into smaller eddies, and then again into smaller eddies, and so on until the eddies dissipate.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
It narrowed again and put a few rocks in your way and a few eddies to swirl you around and then maybe a sandbar to stop you short.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
