How to Use gyration in a Sentence

gyration

noun
  • The day-to-day or even year-to-year gyrations of the stock market don’t matter.
    Liz Weston, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Like most of the pound’s gyrations over the past two years, the latest move likely won’t mean much in the long run.
    Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 24 May 2019
  • The false claim caused stock price gyrations, and investors short and long said they were harmed.
    Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2020
  • A 6-foot-5 fellow in a blue shirt with white long sleeves went through the same gyrations, down there in the fairway.
    Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 7 Apr. 2017
  • But the size of rate gyrations during the past three years has not been normal.
    Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The same drugs quiet the gyrations of pea tendrils and the clenching of Venus flytraps.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The wild gyrations of the Trump show, in this view, only reinforce the reasons voters turned to Mr. Biden in the first place — the appeal of a steady hand against the storm.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Have the stock market’s recent gyrations been the right amount of volatility for banks or too much?
    Aaron Back, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • That reflects the gyrations of global oil prices and a brief slowdown in China.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The millionaires don’t let the daily gyrations of the stock market or fears of a recession take them off their game.
    Michelle Singletary, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Amazon’s stock price, currently about $1,750 a share, would cause massive day-to-day gyrations in the Dow.
    Akane Otani, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • In the three years since, Mr. Trump has obsessed over the daily gyrations of the stock market like no president before him.
    Matt Phillips, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
  • So what do all these global gyrations mean for your wallet?
    NBC News, 8 May 2018
  • The gyrations over the property arrive at a time when the VTA is under fire on multiple fronts.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Despite this week’s stock market gyrations, some companies still want to join the fray.
    Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Those hips — read pelvic thrusts and gyrations — were copied from the black artists Elvis studied so carefully in Memphis nightclubs.
    George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Between the lines: Economist Justin Wolfers compares the gyrations of the stock market in recent days to a toddler throwing a fit.
    Neil Irwin, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Even through the ownership gyrations of the past decade, Tucker’s has built a reputation for brunch.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Adding Chinese factories to the mix could throw the market back into gyrations.
    David Staats, idahostatesman, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Museum directors should be more worried about the gyrations of the stockmarket than any of the changes to income tax.
    The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In it, the camera lingers a bit too long on Curtis’s gyrations, leering at her hip thrusts like an interloper in a locker room.
    Rachel Syme, New Republic, 30 June 2017
  • A week ago, economists were cheered to see steady job growth and higher wage growth — but some now fear workers’ gains could be undermined by Wall Street’s gyrations.
    Martha C. White, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • As such, it is heavily exposed to the kind of wild trade gyrations that Mr. Trump’s policies have generated.
    Michael Tackett, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The error resulted in some gyrations that spanned almost 25 percentage points between the high and low prices in a matter of minutes.
    Katherine Doherty, Bloomberg.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The tumbles over the last two weeks have little to do with the pro-democracy demonstrations that have subsumed Hong Kong for five months and sometimes caused gyrations in the local market.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Investing is full of uncertainties, as the gyrations of the past few months attest, and keeping costs low is one of the few things that investors have within their control.
    Stan Choe, USA TODAY, 14 May 2018
  • The wider pool of investors in the gold market and the presence of longer-term traders are helping mute the impact of developments that decades ago would have spurred strong haven demand for the metal and bigger price gyrations.
    Luzi-Ann Javier, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
  • Changes in the heated blob of water working underneath the MJO’s atmospheric gyrations are hard to track.
    John Fialka, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Here are seven local pop concerts for anyone looking to celebrate the season with some standing, singing along and perhaps a light gyration of the hips or two.
    Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2022
  • On a shelf above them, several mechanical Santas were frozen in hip gyrations.
    Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024

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