whirl
verb (used without object)
to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly.
were whirling
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past progressiveof whirl.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile a flock of knotty problems were whirling about OPA offices, keeping the enforcement staff in a tizzy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dark matter was first postulated in the 1930s by the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, who observed that galaxies in the far-off Coma cluster were whirling around one another faster than the laws of physics would allow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their sons and daughters were whirling at fashionable balls, attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages.
From Time Magazine Archive
But two years later, when the sunspots were whirling in baleful profusion, Isadore Edelstein was nabbed for violating his parole, tucked backed in Walla Walla for keeps.
From Time Magazine Archive
But by late June, even as Minnijean and I were whirling about our hotel room, dressing to see Johnny Mathis, a man we thought of as a deity, Little Rock school integration was unraveling.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
