How to Use whirligig in a Sentence

whirligig

noun

• The 3-ton whirligig has a lot of moving pieces, so to speak.
  — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, baltimoresun.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• The whirligig's whirlwind rise took even toy store clerks by surprise.
  — Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com, 31 May 2017
• Co-written by Ryan Tedder, the song is a whirligig of whoops and claps that seems designed for the wedding dance floor.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
• The whirligig of time has returned a reimagining of Shakespeare’s comedy to Shakespeare in the Park.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• His successor will now have to see whether the Johnsonian whirligig was all worth it.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
• Taking the money and then giving it back, in an endless game of bureaucratic whirligig, does not seem to grab them the way it grabs wonks.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 22 June 2018
• It’s a mechanical sound but an oddly soothing one: a shwick shwick shwick of spinning metal, like a whirligig in the breeze.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• For now at least, Gucci serves as the best-case-scenario for what can happen when the fashion whirligig turns, and a new interpreter takes over a storied brand.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2017
• To ensure that final vowel stays banished, there's not a flag, whirligig, weather vane, or braided rug in sight.
  — Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 29 June 2010
• The whirligig of literary reputation has brought about its own revenge, true to the Comic Spirit of irony that Meredith so often invoked.
  — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• In memory, during that long-ago evening on the edge of the woods, even my young children were drawn into its whirligig of shipwrecks, twins in disguise, misread letters, wise foolery and foolish wisdom.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Its second season struck me as a near-perfect whirligig of a TV season, constantly yanking the rug out from underneath itself and hoping its fall wasn’t too brutal.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• The deliciously intricate story begins in Manhattan, in 1933, in the form of a whirligig whodunnit.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• But this moment—and the final passage of the IRA itself—shows how the Senate’s rules have devolved the legislative process into an inscrutable whirligig of procedural legerdemain.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• The smarmy introductions and whirligig graphics and general aura of hectic oversell could be replaced with a more confident statement of what theater, at its best, has been and can be.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2021
• An intense whirligig of tannins metallically attacked my mouth and, on the finish, there was an astringent sizzle, with undertones of acid reflux.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2019
• For another whirligig story in which a well-off family’s life is upended, see this stylized thriller from the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos.
  — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• Items in the museum include kites, masks, whirligigs, dolls, animal figures, rugs, paintings, carvings from wood and from recycled Styrofoam.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The whirligig filming of a battle scene features a collection of Skid Row drunkards all, apparently, wielding real weapons; the segment ends with a tracking shot across the battle-wounded and the revelation that one guy’s dead.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• The popularity of these whirligigs also corresponded to a new vogue for angel food cakes, which necessitated huge volumes of eggs to be beaten, the whites and the yolks separately.
  — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 3 Nov. 2019
• The hands-on, annual event engaged students in various activities, including basket weaving, tin punching and whirligig creations.
  — cleveland, 27 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024