swirled; swirling; swirls
1
a
: to move with an eddying or whirling motion
swirling water
b
: to pass in whirling confusion
2
: to have a twist or convolution
: to cause to swirl
swirled her drink
Examples of swirl in a Sentence
Verb
The water swirled around the drain.
kept swirling her lemonade until the ice had melted and it was completely watered down
Noun
A swirl of smoke rose from the chimney.
He painted swirls of color on the canvas.
ice cream with chocolate swirls
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Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Hurricane season still swirling:Rafael could threaten US later this week
Patty no longer a tropical cyclone
The hurricane center said Monday that Patty is no longer a tropical storm or cyclone in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
Sounding curiously spectral, the group is an essentially trippy element in the psychedelic swirl.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Verb
At medium doses, that vivid picture of the world begins to dissolve into classically psychedelic imagery: swirling geometric patterns, flashing colors and shapes, and a general deconstruction of ordinary perception into chaos.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Hurricane season still swirling:Rafael could threaten US later this week
Patty no longer a tropical cyclone
The hurricane center said Monday that Patty is no longer a tropical storm or cyclone in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
Across eleven offerings, a swirl of photographs mined from the internet and transferred onto wood panels, Norsworthy offers the kind of narratives most movies refuse to consider, let alone imagine.
—Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
Sounding curiously spectral, the group is an essentially trippy element in the psychedelic swirl.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Swirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swirl. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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swirl
1 of 2 noun1
: a whirling mass or motion : eddy
2
: whirling confusion
lost in the swirl of events
3
: a twisting shape, mark, or pattern
swirl
2 of 2 verb1
: to move with or pass in a swirl
2
: to be marked with or arranged in swirls
3
: to cause to swirl
swirlingly
adverb
ˈswər-liŋ-lē
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