whorl

Example Sentences

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Walking past the huge, intricately carved cedar doors, you will find yourself standing under two giant, hand-carved spinning whorls.

From Seattle Times

In the CT scans, the whorls and folds of the structures come through clearly.

From New York Times

A skein of dread whorls around the narrator’s job at The Hague.

From New York Times

The sounds of whistlers whorl overhead at the start, in “Hero Danger,” as the four members of the quartet toss a carefree theme around, as if in anticipation of a great adventure.

From Los Angeles Times

Turn up the activity of these magnetic whorls, and you get more solar storms flinging deadly charged particles and radiation throughout our solar system.

From New York Times