whirl

Example Sentences

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The brush whirls on the canvas, the syllabary elegant and smooth.

From Literature

Left to talk, Jacobs whirls through stories of past, present and future: anecdotes about his grandmother planning her lunch spot around which department store she’d spend the day at, and memories of Bob Fosse films.

From Salon

They whirl, bounce, and collide within their confined space like loose change shaking violently in a machine, moving so quickly and unpredictably that standard scientific tools have struggled to track them.

From Science Daily

And so I whirled back up the stairs to my room, changed into my oldest skirt, and set out over the bumpy brick streets.

From Literature

I looped it quickly, whirled it around and around my head, and then threw it out as best I could, but the end of it fell short.

From Literature