How to Use gyre in a Sentence

gyre

noun

• For one thing, ocean gyres tend to alter the sea levels around them.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2020
• Water currents and gyres The ocean doesn't sit still like water in a sink.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
• It's called the Central American Gyre; a gyre is just a broad spin.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
• The data suggests that the gyres have been steadily moving toward the poles for the last four decades.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2020
• Prevailing winds often push sea ice from the west around the tip of the peninsula to the east, where a gyre traps it against land.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Overall, the animals could be found within these whirlpool-like gyres more than three-fourths of the time.
  — Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic, 19 June 2018
• Although ocean currents swirl around it, within the gyre the water stills.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
• To get those tags on, though, the crew of banders would first need to get past the two angry parents, who circled around in a widening gyre.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2021
• The gyre often shifts positions in the ocean, depending on the season.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 26 June 2020
• By controlling the mixture, the gyre governs the annual spring bloom of phytoplankton, the base of the ocean food web.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• Unlike most seas, the Sargasso doesn’t have strict boundaries but is loosely formed by the swirling currents of the North Atlantic gyre.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
• This round in the endless Israeli-Palestinian gyre has driven people over the edge.
  — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• There are five gyres in the ocean — one in the Indian, two in the Atlantic and two in the Pacific — and each gyre contains garbage patches of different sizes.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2021
• There are five gyres in the ocean — one in the Indian, two in the Atlantic and two in the Pacific — and each gyre contains garbage patches of different sizes.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2021
• In a 73-foot steel boat, the women will voyage to four oceanic gyres, which are places on earth where the currents collect plastic in alarming amounts.
  — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2019
• The voyage will cross four oceanic gyres, where ocean plastic is known to accumulate, and the Arctic.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
• Marcus Eriksen is co-founder of 5 Gyres Institute, a nonprofit named for the five main ocean gyres, said the finding is not a surprise.
  — National Geographic, 6 June 2019
• However, the ocean currents that cause the Pacific gyre don't just happen in the North Pacific.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2010
• The patch was formed by a system of circulating currents known as a gyre that creates a whirlpool effect, Mason said.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2022
• Like plastic swept into an ocean gyre, the wreckage of American masculinity seems to drift up to the U.P. and never leave.
  — Bruce Barcott, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Lavers said Henderson Island is at the edge of a vortex of ocean currents known as the South Pacific gyre, which tends to capture and hold floating trash.
  — Fox News, 16 May 2017
• The Weddell Sea is notoriously icy, a function of a rotating current, or gyre, that keeps much of the pack ice within the sea for years.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Traveling by raft, Eriksen and Paschal make their way into the gyre the way that plastic garbage does—passively carried along by the current.
  — Rachel Riederer, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
• Golden fragments of seaweed float by, escapees, perhaps, from the Sargasso Sea’s swirling gyre in the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Helen Scales, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
• Dr Ryan’s particular interest was where all the litter came from before it was swept into the gyre.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• Debris tends to collect in swirling, circular currents called gyres.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2019
• But then came a brace of developments that significantly widened the gyre.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2021
• We are constantly presented with an image of a world spinning out like William Butler Yeats’s widening gyre, where things fall apart and the center cannot hold.
  — Kyle Sammin, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of five gyres, or vortexes, where currents have concentrated debris that has ended up in the ocean.
  — Mary Anne Potts, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre – the biggest of five huge, spinning circular currents in the world’s oceans that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage vortex.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024