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
The East like the West Indies is the brooding-place of storms, which in gyratory coils, like a lasso thrown wide and large, go twisting north by west.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various
When mixed with water, chloral hydrate causes a considerable degree of cold; and, as with camphor, small fragments of it placed on the surface of water exhibit gyratory movements.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
