A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
1 They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.
2 Thus the two combatants locked in an ever-widening gyre of eternal creation and destruction.
3 Storms of gaudy multicoloured birds would gyre past the vessel.
4 Some glob onto an Alaska-sized gyre of plastic debris swirling in the Pacific Ocean.
5 When the skiff finally floated serenely amidst the unending gyre , Stormchases opened the siphons.
6 Ay, and the elves and gyre - carlings frae the bonnie bairn, grace be wi' it?
7 It is Geryon!-cometo bear me to the gyre below!
8 Dorsally, the fissure bifurcates, embracing the gyre indented by the caudal limb of the paracentral.
9 The rest is flux in a gyre (or whatever it was Yeats said).
10 Behind them water now swirled past the doors in a churning gyre of bodies and debris.
11 This is when Markov's gyre began to tighten.
12 She assumed Ian dreamed of his own jailer, lover, rapist, master: a minor gyre called Gothpys.
13 Saeng's power erupted about her, sending the litter of the jungle floor flying in a rising gyre .
14 Turning and turning in the widening gyre
15 At the same time, older ice within the gyre has melted, attacked in different directions by warm water.
16 There were two gyre - killings here in the Citadel, and two recorded during that same time in Ylferdun Deep.
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