Example Sentences

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Eddies in the middle of the ocean, frothing with foam.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

Last Friday’s game between the Blue Devils and the Red Eddies was postponed after the communities were locked down while police searched for 40-year-old Robert Card.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Prospectors’ eyes are trained to look for opportunity: Eddies, abrupt shifts in direction caused by downed trees, and slack water “drop-out zones,” where gold, 19 times heavier than water, will fall as flow slows.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

Eddies just a few kilometers across likely play a critical role in stirring heat and carbon into the oceans near the poles, Morrow says.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2022

Eddies cloying and fulsome speeches got on Mrs. Cleaver’s nerves.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner