whirly
Americannoun
plural
whirliesEtymology
Origin of whirly
Example Sentences
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By the 1970s, even the Queen was wearing looser-fitting evening gowns with drapey arms and "swirly whirly" patterns.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
Personal whirly copters dart among glinting steel towers, everything looks like the Seattle Space Needle, and nothing is crummy or made out of wood.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fred smiled, remembering the time Scruffy saved a cat stuck in a toilet bowl and then accidentally flushed himself into a swirly whirly.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
“Early one mor-r-ning,” I sing, loud and clear, making the whirly shapes of the world go spangly and weird, but I keep on singing.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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