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Meanings of whirl in English
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arremolinar-se Synonyms
Examples for "eddy"
Examples for "eddy"
1
Then nothing, save the lap and eddy of the water far away.
2
The junction appeared deeper; water churned in a putrid eddy of cross-currents.
3
For I was now strangely interested in these men of the eddy.
4
An eddy clutched her and drew her swiftly in toward the bank.
5
The eddy on which it was poised seizes and drags it down.
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
I could hear the gentle purl of the stream on my right.
2
One, two, three, four, five, and then three purl; that is right.
3
When the knitting is round, you purl and knit the intake alternately.
4
I can't leave her behind... purl three... you know what she's like.'
5
Mag counted up her dropped stitch and began again, knit, purl, purl.
Usage of whirl in English
1
They're unnerving even now, months later; Grand Central without its human whirl.
2
She clung to this idea in the whirl of the new life.
3
The bow-string holding the stick made it whirl in the hole beneath.
4
The animal disappeared, swallowed in the whirl-wind that encompassed her and it.
5
The storm was coming, and it would have to whirl its course.
6
His lips smiled; his heart was in a wild whirl of happiness.
7
His mind was in an uproar with this whirl of new ideas.
8
His mind was in a vertigo with this whirl of new ideas.
9
Their souls whirl in the reel, and bound with the bounding feet.
10
The fine silt was easy to whirl into the storm they'd created.
11
My head in a whirl, I sought out Sri Yukteswar in Serampore.
12
They must lose themselves in the dash and whirl of daring moments.
13
In a whirl of indignation, Mrs. Hanway-Harley burst in upon Senator Hanway.
14
For somewhere in those whirl of thoughts a tiny hope had lingered.
15
All this was felt rather than thought in the whirl of action.
16
She was in a whirl of excitement as she shut the door.
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Whirl through the time
Whirl across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common