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Meanings of vortex in English
Synonyms
Examples for "whirlpool"
Examples for "whirlpool"
1
The water I had seen; I had not counted on the whirlpool.
2
But who knows how far the whirlpool might have spread by then?
3
It shuddered, it was afraid; this vision of a whirlpool haunted him.
4
Others followed the leaders, creating a whirlpool of stampeding, panting, wild-eyed livestock.
5
The eddy was rapidly becoming a whirlpool, the water foaming about it.
1
Another country feeling the economic brunt of a political maelstrom is Vietnam.
2
They are the little things in the confused maelstrom of human endeavor.
3
Yet the document is a maelstrom of clashing and perhaps irreconcilable ideologies.
4
Things moved rapidly as they usually do in the maelstrom of speculation.
5
Something elemental and grotesquely inhuman began to form out of the maelstrom.
Usage of vortex in English
1
A polar vortex across the midwest and northeast didn't exactly help business.
2
Thomas was going down-down into the vortex without any hope of rescue.
3
They were on the edge of the vortex of the old dispute.
4
On the contrary, she was tossed in the vortex of warring impulses.
5
New banks were started; merchants plunged recklessly into the vortex of speculation.
6
It has plunged me into the very vortex of this ghastly affair.
7
Deeper into the vortex This was Clara's third time inside a Dalek.
8
Here is a plot of the horizontal position of the vortex projectile.
9
The NMR spectrum also implies an anomalous electronic structure of vortex cores.
10
This is the crater, here, with the vortex at the bottom, there.
11
She was plainly not a part of the vortex that surrounded her.
12
I plunged into a vortex of pleasures, at once hollow and real.
13
They were hung perfectly motionless at the rim of the slow vortex.
14
Sometimes their judgment erred, and carried them into a vortex of misery.
15
First of all, I found out that the vortex itself is deadly.
16
He lived in a vortex of mental confusion, performing his tasks mechanically.
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Vortex through the time
Vortex across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common