swirl
verb (used without object)
to move around or along with a whirling motion; whirl; eddy.
Example Sentences
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Ken Billington’s lighting and Constance Hoffman’s costumes, which featured swirling flared skirts in different candy-colored plaids for the female chorus, added to the effect, as did Ms. Zambello’s direction, which emphasized thrust rather than sweetness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Footage captured on Sunday in Greenwich Park, south-east London, showed a small whirlwind, or dust devil, swirling around people.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The researchers believe these swirling flows are evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a familiar phenomenon in fluid dynamics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Experts at Chilbolton Observatory, operated by the UK's national space laboratory RAL Space, monitor UK-licenced satellites and fast-multiplying fragments of space debris swirling around them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
More and more people, screaming and yelling, hundreds of voices swirling together like a howling wind.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
