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.
had eddied
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past perfectof eddy.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It's as if for a moment, pen in hand, he had eddied back to his old absolute positions....
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
That Sunday afternoon Janet Hosmer had awakened about sunset from an after-dinner sleep, rested and refreshed, with her mind continuing to be occupied by thoughts of Steele Weir about whom had eddied her dreams.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
Now the tortuous Trail passed through snow-wreaths which the winds had eddied into indentations; then over bright, glassy surfaces of ice and fragments of rocks, until the pinnacle was reached.
From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill
Under its domination he had sunk until the swirling stream of life had eddied him upon the desolate shores of Simití.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
