gyratory

Example Sentences

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Activists have also blocked Wandsworth Bridge, Arnos Grove and the Hanger Lane gyratory, the group says.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2021

Dr Malik Saleh, a dentist stuck at the Hanger Lane gyratory, has been forced to cancel appointments.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2021

Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward or whiz away toward Mars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adj. rotating &c. v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory†, trochilic†, vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Let us then go on to the cases in which we have proof of such gyratory motions in the stars; for such are not wanting.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward