eddy

Example Sentences

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They can’t recreate every wind puff and ocean eddy, so they divide the world into a 3-D grid and generate myriad variables for each box, from soil temperature to ocean salinity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like “an eddy in a river.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Temperature data from satellites and buoys revealed a large southbound eddy moving through the region, coupled with 4 days of strong easterly winds, fueled strong upwelling.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 15, 2024

The group of scientists wondered if it was possible to make, and hold, medium-size eddies -- neither one big eddy, nor smaller and smaller ones.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

I was afraid we would move out of the eddy and, holding with one hand, I drew up my feet so they were against the side of the timber and shoved hard toward the bank.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway