How to Use dervish in a Sentence

dervish

noun

• As Iranians say, the night is long and the dervish is awake.
  — Washington Examiner, 25 Feb. 2021
• The salad spinner, still since June, now thinks it’s a whirling dervish.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• Evan — quick, spinning, a dervish of a linebacker — would drill him.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• So crank the tunes, pop open a bottle of vino, and marinate in the swirling, dervish of chaos.
  — Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• This wasn’t spread pick-and-roll and whirling dervish in transition and making plays.
  — Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 9 Jan. 2018
• And, toward the end, some of the men start to spin — upright this time — on the spot in the off-kilter upper-body stance of dervishes.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• Ries is a whirling dervish of the startup and innovation world.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2018
• Anna is a whirling dervish who talks in her sleep all night long, even getting up to stand on the bed sometimes!
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 9 Aug. 2011
• Bruno Frisoni found a tall fez in a collection forming a stylish tablescape and spent most of the evening whirling like a dervish in it.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2019
• Through it all, Mr. Prince was a dervish of creative impatience.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
• Sitting in the booth one night, Pendarvis is a whirling dervish fueled by Classic Coke and Kools.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
• Queen Angela was first, proceeded by a whirling-dervish jester.
  — Michael Dumas, AL.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• That 2-year-old whirling dervish may be pretending to be a superhero.
  — Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 9 Dec. 2022
• Eminem is a mischievous, whirling dervish, wrestling real and imagined demons side by side.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• To conclude, my aim in this is not to flagellate myself in a dervish of self-indulgence.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2010
• But McKinnon’s dervish routine, all kicks and fist bumps and grins, swaggers.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2019
• Wade played like a dervish in a spectacular opening act.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
• Cox’s Peggy is a dervish of dance energy wrapped up in a virginal package.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity.com, 3 May 2017
• When conducting, Bernstein was a whirling dervish of flailing arms and flashing teeth.
  — A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
• Robbie throws herself into the role of a silent-screen starlet, giving a whirling dervish of a performance.
  — Vulture, 18 Nov. 2022
• The best way to dodge incoming bullets is to tap the controller’s left bumper which makes your masked gunslinger twirl around like a rampaging dervish.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2019
• From the moment the lights went down for All Time Low, the place was a nonstop whirling dervish of bouncing heads and hands attached to kids who knew every word to every song, new or old.
  — Katy Kroll, Billboard, 29 July 2017
• The song is a whirling dervish: 26 chord changes in 16 rapid-fire bars, a steady spiral of major-third modulations that can make even the most adept players scramble.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• In 16 minutes of action Monday, Gillespie scored four points; had five rebounds, an assist, and a steal; and was a dervish on defense.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Still, in the run-up to the 100-day deadline, the administration has become a whirling dervish of activity.
  — Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• Elisabeth Moss plays Jackson as a dervish of ideas and emotions, in a performance that surely must be remembered at the end of the year.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2020
• My littlest whirling dervish tilted on his axis for a few more rotations, before collapsing in a sweaty heap next to me on the grass.
  — Sarah Evans, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• His large collage drawing surrounds images cut from anatomy books with whirling dervish-like lines.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
• This melancholy dervish finds in music a sustained ecstasy that eludes him in life, although at certain splendid instants those separate worlds collide.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
• Coltrane’s version, by contrast, is a hypnotic, nearly 14-minute-long whirling dervish of a thing, vamping an E minor into E major again and again and again, chanting and droning, propelled by Tyner’s insistent, percussive left hand on the keys.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024