(n.) A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(2) Veryan has developed a stent – a metal mesh tube inserted in an artery – that mimics the natural swirl of the blood flow, which researchers have found improves outcomes for patients with circulation problems.
(3) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(4) The authors report a case of myocardial infarction complicated by a false aneurysm of the posterior wall of the left ventricle, the diagnosis of which was confirmed, for the first time, by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) which provided better definition of the anatomical features of the lesion: visualisation of the particularly wide neck (5 cm) and the site of rupture of the myocardium; demonstration of the presence in the false aneurysm with a thin pericardial wall of a large thrombus of different acoustic density, itself overlain by swirling whorls.
(5) A perfect storm is now swirling around capital punishment in America, and it is a storm that Europe has had a strong hand in creating.
(6) Turn the pork once and don't stir but gently swirl the sauce as it cooks.
(7) Speculation about YouTube's plans for a Spotify-style subscription service have been swirling for some time.
(8) After 7 days the swirling pattern scores were still in accordance with the presence of discs, whereas the other structure-associated determinants showed already spheric and even fragmented platelets.
(9) Speculation is swirling that the Northern Rock plc sale might bring in less than £1bn, but Sandler hopes NRAM will eventually make up the shortfall.
(10) Many fears about the disease have swirled around New York’s status as a transport hub.
(11) Rumours swirl of a higher death toll, the use of poisonous gas and the body of a pregnant woman garrotted by pro-Ukraine fanatics.
(12) For these palmiers, however, – full of chocolate and honey – I've found the rolling method is best for keeping the filling contained in the swirls of dough and stopping it from seeping across the baking tray.
(13) Two deceptively benign-appearing, unclassifiable but very similar fibromyxoid sarcomas characterized histologically by bland, innocuous-appearing fibroblastic cells and a swirling, whorled growth pattern are presented.
(14) Then there are the personal expectations that swirl around the new leader.
(15) Smoke continued to swirl into an overcast sky more than an hour after the reported explosion as witnesses in the area gave accounts of feeling a shock wave.
(16) These are the range of anxieties also swirling around the commissioning team at Channel 4, who would have preferred more of the same with Kevin Lygo, the director of television and content, getting the nod.
(17) It must say something about the swirling currents of prejudice, fear and anger in modern Britain that even Banksy cannot predict their next bizarre lurch.
(18) In the future being adaptable, able to learn how to learn, rather than learn how to remember, will be the only way of staying afloat in a swirling labour market.
(19) DeVos’s connections to groups opposing aggressive Title IX intervention is not the only source of concern swirling around her potential confirmation.
(20) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
Whirling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whirl
() a. & n. from Whirl, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the box the atmosphere is whirled round by a fan and hereby led over a layer of catalyst.
(2) Water contaminated by Myxosoma cerebralis was disinfected with ultraviolet irradiation to control whirling disease.
(3) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
(4) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
(5) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
(6) In contrast to the more uniform localization of antigens 01 through 010 over the whole cell surface, antigens 011 and 012 are less strongly detectable on cell bodies than on processes and membranous whirls.
(7) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(9) That it should take a young Anglo-Lebanese barrister, recently married to a Hollywood star, to reanimate the debate (in a whirl of camera-clicks and flash bulbs), says much about the times we live in.
(10) That’s when all the wealthy widows who live elsewhere the rest of the year flock to their Florida mansions and get caught up in a whirl of charity balls and dinners.
(11) The numerous internal membranous bodies, some of which arise from the plasma membrane of the vegetative hypha, may be vesicular, whirled, or convoluted.
(12) Based in the Netherlands, where he is artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam , the country's foremost theatre company, he frequently whirls his productions through European cities.
(13) Eukaryotic cell structures have been detected consisting of lamella layers whirled around the intact rickettsiae.
(14) The frequency with which the word whirling and similar words (whirlall words) were used in Rorschach tests administered to 1154 medical students 20 to 35 years ago has been counted by computer.
(15) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
(16) In addition, a high incidence 1) of micronodular hepatocellular whirling lesions with increased basophilia, 2) of other proliferative areas of altered cellularity and 3) of precancerous nodules was found in the livers of schistosome-infected mice treated with hycanthone.
(17) The main subjective complaint was vertigo (whirling; 93%).
(18) So the studios made sure that those who appeared on screen could not be perceived as gay, marrying them off in a whirl of publicity if necessary.
(19) Give the Aussie Eggs a whirl: poached free range eggs on toast with tomato, garlic and fresh basil.
(20) Typical alterations are the vascular lesions of the conjunctiva, the whirl-like opacities of the cornea, the wedge-shaped anterior opacities and the branching spokes of the lens, as well as the vascular lesions of the retina.