Example Sentences

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto successfully lobbied the Dodgers to head down to the bullpen and begin warming up—even though he had twirled a complete game two days earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Where once these worlds had twirled, the cataclysm left behind only a diminished molten lump and a churning 10-million-kilometer-wide cloud of incandescent vapor and pulverized debris that should eventually condense into a new, second-generation planet.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

She recalled the last time she saw her mom, how she had twirled around in a black-and-white dress with a red sweater over it.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2021

Outside the Capitol, Malia, then six, had twirled a little dance just for him.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2017

The arms looked like normal arms, but there were so many of them, all tangled together, that his chest looked kind of like a forkful of spaghetti somebody had twirled together.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan