eddy
noun
a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
eddying
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present participleof eddy.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Its ambiguities and enigmas add up to not more eddying confusions but to a stark reminder that the only reasonable response to grief is “life life life.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
The crowds mostly kept a respectful distance but in sight of the gate, eddying like pilgrims gathered around a shrine, only breaking their vigil to watch a plane arc slowly by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
Steadily the fins begin to gather and steer towards me, more and more, till I'm in an eddying mass of swooping, diving cetaceans.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2013
The quartet's eddying strings didn't add much to her older material, as one mid-tempo, meditative, melodically extravagant song followed another.
From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 11, 2011
I could not say how far we’d gone, but at a widening bend of the river, I felt us slow in the eddying current along the other shore.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
