How To Use Twirl In A Sentence

  • But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
  • More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin. Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
  • All he failed to do was twirl his shirt around his head. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having twirled in a frock, he dons jackboots to play Adolf Hitler in Springtime for Hitler, the production's howlingly awful play-within-a-play.
  • But I suppose it was too much to expect for him to have a black, twirly moustache and for her to cackle mysteriously from beneath an impenetrable black shroud.
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  • Then he twirled, sambaed and sashayed across the cypress-planked floor. Mogo Rules
  • She twirled her baton high in the air as she led the parade.
  • The scarves twirl round and round thousands of heads. Times, Sunday Times
  • He absent-mindedly twirled a lock of crimson hair around his finger.
  • Me and Austen sat on twirly iron chairs with red, heart-shaped, leather upholstery. WHITE LIES
  • It's sort of a twist and twirl as he's bending down. Times, Sunday Times
  • She often rocks, sways, twirls, jumps, climbs, leaps, gyrates and gets into upside-down positions.
  • As for Sun Tzu himself, his life and military career is primarily depicted by a number of extras engaged in wuxia-style twirling warfare. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • She twirled the liquid around in her glass.
  • Break off a piece of dodder or "lovevine," twirl it round the head three times and drop it on a bush behind you. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
  • You could be sure that their majorettes were not only good twirlers, they were good students.
  • Twirling his new, Charter-Magicked mustache, he quickened his pace. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • Stick in hand, leathery skin and leather chappals worn to shreds, his dispossession was clear from his finely twirled white moustache and neat beard.
  • Your twirly dress was a source of much comfort to me – it was a reminder that this was FUN. Women Without Pants | Her Bad Mother
  • ‘I am,’ said Jacqueline, twirling her fork in her fingers, but not actually touching the food.
  • She wears skin tight leathers and performs gymnastic twirls, capable of an Olympic gold.
  • These were not the dainty and chaste twirls and curtseys of the ballerinas at Lincoln Center.
  • I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ava sat on the edge of the bed, twirling her hair around her fingers, and Damien drummed his feet against the headboard.
  • Deliphine was then twirling the sword with her hands and with one swift movement, she pointed it at him.
  • Papers twirled about effortlessly and left their posts gliding to the ground and crumpling beneath the wheels of my haphazard vehicle.
  • Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
  • The Strictly pros are branching out as they get fit following time away from twirling around the dancefloor. The Sun
  • Singer-songwriter Christina Perri sings as Victoria twirls around on stage, doing moves that include synchronized falling to the ground whenever Christina sings the word "falling" in her lyrics. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
  • When the phone is low on juice, the phone can be recharged simply by twirling it around a free digit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sarah idly twirled the white gold band on her wedding finger.
  • The song is a bright run of notes that gets faster and faster and ends in a little twirl. Times, Sunday Times
  • He twirled the gold band, Helen's wedding ring, around on the tip of his little finger, before sliding it down to the knuckle.
  • Hickory, twirling colour into a glowing paperweight on the end of a slender five-foot-long steel rod called a punty iron, looked extremely relieved at my return from the races. Shattered
  • I can just see the hats twirling the rhinestone jeans around in a sweet, well-practiced two-step.
  • Earl is curled up on her sofa, glass of white wine in one hand, mobile phone in the other as she studies each twirl and turn. Times, Sunday Times
  • And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed You think because a chimpanzee knows you, he doesn't hate you?
  • She did a twirl in front of the mirror.
  • A man beside a pickup truck was standing alongside the road, twirling a radio antenna.
  • Occasionally she twirled her fish hook like a majorette and made it glint in the spotlight. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
  • While we have land to labor, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench or twirling a distaff.
  • Beginning with this line, Shelley continued his writing on the opposite side of the address panel; from here on, the repair to the worn fold is along the right-hand edge of the text, where the damage does affect the final letters of some words. line 32. twisted: though 1989 reads this word as "twirled" (and emends twisted in the final text to "twirled" as a possible typo), the crucial letters seem to us to be st. line 36. humans: Shelley canceled the terminal "s" in his draft. line 41. bond Street beau (sic). line 42. Annotations
  • He saw Stella, blushed and twirled his hair around with a pencil, and then about-turned sharpish back out of the room.
  • Flower petals danced across the scene, and twirled through the air.
  • In his heyday, there were reports of young women twirling chaines tours down cornrows instead of helping with harvest. Bulletproof Girl
  • She gave me a smile as I picked up my fork and started twirling it.
  • Corrina picked up her fork and twirled it around in her salad, never once raising the food to her mouth.
  • For dessert, they picked at little beignets spiked with amaretto (okay), wheels of vanilla-yogurt semifreddo (good), and honey-tinged mascarpone tarts capped with twirls of candied orange peel (very good).
  • Men also have many sensitive nerve endings in their nipples and can become very excited by nipple kisses, sucks, and twirls.
  • In what is perhaps a desire to allude to the baton twirlers of the marching band halftime show, the staging relies too heavily on dancers with giant flowing flags and large, geometrically abstract but still twirlable props.
  • For a split second, ugly scenes try to squeeze into my brain: planes nosediving, twirling, horrific screeching, explosions on impact.
  • She twirled a strand of her long hair and smirked at my disheveled appearance.
  • The dancers who twirl their way to the top of the leaderboard will get to perform at the spectacular old-world ballroom. The Sun
  • Jerred rushed into the house and picked me up in a tight squeeze and twirled me around.
  • Bonnie twirled her empty glass in her fingers.
  • All he failed to do was twirl his shirt around his head. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clothes that pull, sag, buckle or droop add pounds, so when trying out something, dance and twirl around the dressing room.
  • She found herself twirling her brown hair around her fingertips and rubbing the toe of her shoe on the floor.
  • I lift out one ax, twirl it, slam in the adze, and gingerly test it.
  • The dancers rely on powerful, rather slow, twirling movements with hops.
  • His foot should stamp, his throat should growl, his hair should twirl and his face should scowl. Times, Sunday Times
  • The important thing is to get some expert instruction,'cause twirling around on a pole in your underwear is a lot harder than it looks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sword twirled once -- a flash -- then it descended, severing the lance in front of the owner's grip. The Prince of India — Volume 02
  • I felt her unpin my hair and let it fall around my shoulders, then she began twirling sections of it in her fingers and squirting it with something that smelled deliciously like grapefruit. The Opposite of Me
  • Leaves twirled through the air, but there was no breeze.
  • Seeing Johnny had grabbed a towel from the linen closet, I twirled the shower handle and the water rained out. Arcane Circle
  • From time to time, Russian dancers clad in national costume would pop up to dance between the tables, somehow reminiscent of a doll twirling round and round inside a music box.
  • A majorette is a mere twirler of batons (certainly not a major activity), and a governess governs only the romper room. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
  • Annie Evetts life IS a melodrama and she has recently begun searching for the dude in the black cape and twirly moustache. The Opposing Force « Write Anything
  • He estimated a crowd of more than 1000 people who were stunned at the drummers, fire twirlers, fashion parades, dancers, puppet shows, a DJ, street performers and buskers.
  • Some twirled around while others puddled about forcing some of the pedestrians to stop and take note of their revelry.
  • Shop smart by looking for fun twirly skirts that she can wear again and again to birthday parties or special outings. Say No to the Easter Dress: Pass Over Tradition!
  • I performed a few perfunctory twirls and made good my escape.
  • We knew the Calvin who worked with kids, organized basketball camps and taught baton twirling.
  • The Strictly pros are branching out as they get fit following time away from twirling around the dancefloor. The Sun
  • With a start, she twirled around and found herself fact to face with Kinchi's brother, Chikan.
  • They leaped and twirled, and they seemed to be luring her to swim with them.
  • A horror of any kind was no sooner past than it was straightway forgotten, and the facetious animal would advance with arched back and glaring eyes in defiance of an incursive hen, or twirl in mad hopeless career after its own miserable tail! Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
  • Soon she was twirling and dancing so quickly that it was hard for Adrianna's eyes to keep up.
  • Not even when he grabbed her wrist and twirled her around, slamming her back into his hard chest as he knocked the dirk from her hand. Healing the Highlander
  • Other things get a look in too, for example castanets get clicked, fans get fluttered and shawls get twirled as well.
  • Wasn't John Edwards such a skilled trial lawyer that he was going to twirl a verbal noose, and hogtie Dick Cheney. McCain Denies Blaming Obama And Democrats For Bailout Collapse
  • He held her hand and twirled her around.
  • Obviously a boy who appreciates a big stage when he sees one, Jack danced and twirled and spun with abandon, much to the delight of the photographers.
  • He took my hand and held my waist as we danced across the floor, twisting and twirling.
  • They are twisting in the wind like twisty twirly things. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Beatings will continue until morale improves
  • [48: 2] Picotee is from the French word _picoté_ marked with little pricks round the edge, like the "picots," on lace, _picot_ being the technical term in France for the small twirls which in England are called "purl" or "pearl. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
  • I'd sit on the stool at the counter and twirl. Times, Sunday Times
  • At a recent wedding, I saw a dancing mother twirl a rifle in both hands above her head like the baton of a majorette.
  • He twirled in a kind of pirouette to evade an oncoming attack, then jumped to perform a spin kick. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Chozen’s Review Forum
  • While most burlesque shows lean heavily on cabaret music, the climax of a proper cabaret is not necessarily a topless chanteuse twirling her pasties.
  • The more you practice, the more complicated moves you'll be able to do, like turns and twirls.
  • Valarie brushed a lock of sable hair off her shoulder and twirled around proudly, ‘Like my outfit?’
  • She busied herself with twirling her fingers around the end of her smooth hair, a blessing considering her mother homed rough frizzled locks that never remained tame.
  • Then, with a twirl on her heel, he turned around and walked off in the opposite direction to where Terr'ach was going.
  • Opposite, a humbler twelfth-century ambo has a paired mosaic motif, showing Jonah being eaten and then regurgitated by a twirly-tailed whale.
  • Then, I started to move, twisting and twirling my body, starting in a dance that involved every muscle I had.
  • Z: Twirling his moustache, Z says the following with dramatic flair, doing his best Clint Eastwood "Man with No Name" impression Zardari ke taap se tumhe ek hi aadmi bacha sakta hai, ek hi aadmi, khud Zardari. Wajahat Ali: Pakistan Leaders Meet to Discuss Osama Bin Laden (Parody)
  • The bass twirls about the whiplashing snares, the snuffed hi-hats giving the impression that the Neptunes had a hand in the production.
  • Cat twirled around as the warm rain pounded down on her, soaking her uniform-dress and hair.
  • The scarves twirl round and round thousands of heads. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here it will rest, twirling a little in the gusts but essentially trapped. Times, Sunday Times
  • He saw Stella, blushed and twirled his hair around with a pencil, and then about-turned sharpish back out of the room.
  • The twirling round the chandelier thing wasn't original in boondock saints either cause for the people that actually do remember that movie they laugh afterwards cause it only happens in spy movies so is not the 'boondock' thing and seriously why should a move be held to one movie?! Must Watch: First Punisher: War Zone Teaser Trailer « FirstShowing.net
  • It doesn't do a twirl round a rock or anything. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was so funny to see her twirling again last night. The Sun
  • A telltale sign of both species are the intricate spirals and twirls of their spawn on the base of individual blades of eel-grass, and these will often lead you to the perpetrator.
  • Peter took out his card, and followed the gay frotteur, up and down the room, in the faint hope of placing it in his hand; but the man, by twirling, and capering, and harlequinade, always eluded his pursuit. Paris Lions and London Tigers
  • DNA was added by touching a sterile pipette tip to one of the bacterial streaks and twirling it briefly in the reaction mix.
  • While her voice is still as silky as ever, it meanders without purpose, never grabbing and twirling the way that it has previously.
  • There'll be a torchlit parade, fireball-twirling, a longship pulled through the streets by helmeted warriors and midnight fireworks. Times, Sunday Times
  • She leaves the room and comes back in, eyes to the floor, shoulders slumped and twirling her hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • The celebrant and thurifer must have been trained by baton-twirling majorettes, as they were of the school that likes to rotate the thurible through 360 degrees!
  • Annie twirled the phone cord around her fingers as she spoke slowly to the Real Estate agent.
  • Sometimes he'd hypnotize the dogs with a twirl of his hand, and snap his fingers. Going to the Dogs, in Style
  • Standing at the center of a circle, his feet planted wije, with massive swings of his oaklike arms he twirled his heavy iron ball about his head, lowering it a few feet whenever a German came into range and smashing the man apart. Poland
  • When he released her she turned around and did a twirl to show off her present.
  • Petrucchio then stood upright, and twirled his mustaches, meaningfully. Cinnamon Roll
  • Here it will rest, twirling a little in the gusts but essentially trapped. Times, Sunday Times
  • My sister and I are raising our 'twirly' girls who love their dresses. Girls Rule! - A Dress A Day
  • Baton twirlers and fire breathers took to the dance floor, putting on a short show.
  • You will learn to make, twirl and fill a genuine pizza, the real way.
  • His black gloved fingers twirled his substantial black moustache.
  • She twirls the fringe on her scarf, which has been unwound from her neck and now hangs past her waist up against her unbuttoned spring coat.
  • Early means twirly, twirly means pigs tail, pig tail means curly, Curly means of mice and men. A Mess
  • She looked absolutely radiant with joy in her period dress, spinning and twirling on the floor.
  • I twirled on my toes, trying to imitate a ballerina.
  • The festival brought the complex alive as bright ribbons floated and children twirled and danced in colourful costumes to the sounds of Latin and soca music.
  • I twirl and I spin and I stick one leg out of the water and pretend I am really graceful.
  • Here the flagman pulls the caboose's coupling pin and brakes its speed with a measured twirl of the brake wheel as the cars ahead roll into the inspection track.
  • The female appears insensible to this flagellatory twirl. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
  • Nana stood at the end of the dinette and twirled my note page to her. Arcane Circle
  • ‘You can turn around now,’ I said and did a twirl for Kaiek.
  • He looked back at Roland, smiled without showing his teeth, twirled the gunslinger's revolver once on his finger, clumsily, burlesquing a show-shooter's fancy coda, and then he held it out to Roland, butt first. The Drawing of the Three
  • His waxed moustache had turned into perfect twirls at their ends.
  • She was playing with her hair, twirling an end with her finger. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frolikin down teh skreet N Deer born Mishigan, singin sillii song**iss Leosmoms birfin dai***twirlee twirlee***hippo birdie 2ewes, LM***hoapin U can haz teh hooj cake***skipskipskip***Leo adn Schotzii beez awl Xited***hooj leep hooj leep hooj leep*** gib us sums I screemz**frolikin lahk craZ**hmm hmmhum daon teh skreet N2 teh sunset. Baybeh, yo daddy musta been a - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • She twirled the pencil round in her fingers.
  • They began with a tatterdemalion parade of musicians and baton twirlers down the aisle and onto the stage.
  • I ran to the kitchen, and I turned, and I did a complete twirl and fell against the wall.
  • She sat twirling the stem of the glass in her fingers.
  • She strode down the runway in a flutter of organza, stopped, twirled, and smiled.
  • The celebrant and thurifer must have been trained by baton-twirling majorettes, as they were of the school that likes to rotate the thurible through 360 degrees!
  • Emerging incrementally from individual clusters of endless ruffles, five women eventually twirl to full height as so many efflorescent flamenco dancers. A Pruned Garden of Delights
  • Spirits were high, the alcohol was free or subsidized, there were fire twirlers, drummers and men on stilts moving around the Victorian Arts Centre forecourt and I was feeling on top of the world.
  • So, seizing a candle, he looked about for his gold-laced cap, and found it lying in its usual place, on a console-table, in the anteroom, placed before a mirror at which Jos used to coquet, always giving his side-locks a twirl, and his cap the proper cock over his eye, before he went forth to make appearance in public. Vanity Fair
  • Miranda leaped and ran, spun and twirled, flew and soared to the sound of Mario's violin.
  • In 2000 they installed a couple of tall twirly staircases and a giant spider, sculpted out of steel by Louise Bourgeois.
  • Instead he's playing to the girl's movements, creating an intricate pulsation of beats and cycles, hypnotized by every twirl and gyration.
  • Proper fairy tale behaviour here with twirly wind instruments, the odd dash of harp and a mountain with eyes. Readers recommend: songs with special guests
  • The invite includes a twirl around the opening night party at the Roxy, so I'll get to hobnob with some wannabe Culture Club kids and celebutantes.
  • She kicked just below the lockset, severing the hollow interior door from the frame and sending it twirling from its upper hinge. Sparks
  • The early shorts show off his great dervishing twirls and kicks.
  • * To fashion the sling psychrometer, fasten wet gauze to the bulb of a thermometer, tie it to a cord, and twirl the thermometer at the end of the cord. Chapter 6
  • I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here it will rest, twirling a little in the gusts but essentially trapped. Times, Sunday Times
  • she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair
  • Red and purple hangings hung from gold walls, and the dancers twirled round and round.
  • Broodingly, she twirled the stem of the wine glass between her fingers as the crimson wine twirled around dangerously close to rim of the glass.
  • Alex jumped a foot forward suddenly, twirling around just as quickly and landing in a defensive stance.
  • We exited the atmosphere perfectly with a few bumps and twirls.
  • The scarves twirl round and round thousands of heads. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bonnie twirled her empty glass in her fingers.
  • I kept on skating ahead of him, gathering more and more momentum and doing a complex combination of twirls, spins, and turns.
  • Lexa frowned thoughtfully, absently twirling a few strands of dark brown hair between her fingers as she walked.
  • Showing off to friends with a series of fiddly little twirling jumps is the very opposite of what I do. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dark-haired beauty pulled off her sunglasses, twirling them in her right thumb and index finger.
  • It is a cheerful song, with a little twirl at the end. Times, Sunday Times
  • She did one final twirl for herself in front of the mirror before smiling to herself again and walking to the door carefully in her tall black pump heels.
  • The important thing is to get some expert instruction,'cause twirling around on a pole in your underwear is a lot harder than it looks. Times, Sunday Times
  • The swordsman then twirled the sword in his hands, and raised it high.
  • He set scoring records at Niagara and twirled the baton at Buffalo Bills games.
  • After all the bait was gone, he switched to a white twirly tail jig and caught this nice largemouth bass right under the dock! Field & Stream
  • They twirled just fine in a breeze, but dropped like an arrow if released carefully in still air.
  • MariaVerde below-the-line comments: "Some guy in the right field stands is twirling a stuffed squirrel around like a rally towel. St Louis Cardinals v Philadelphia Phillies - live! | Steve Busfield
  • She scrunched up her face in reply and then handed me a glass of multi-coloured liquid that was adorned with little paper umbrellas and a twirly straw.
  • The reporter frowned and idly twirled a black curl between her fingers.
  • The moves they showed me contained many spins, twirls and slashes that looked like they would harm themselves with, but they pulled off easily.
  • Note also that the firepan comes bundled with a hanging chain, in case you want to have a suspended “self-centering” fireplace, or you could buy two for campsite poi twirling. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Bushbuddy and Littlbug Wood Stoves
  • The Strictly pros are branching out as they get fit following time away from twirling around the dancefloor. The Sun
  • He grasps a forelock between his thumb, his index finger, and the one beside it and he twirls it around and around, until it stands up in a little tuft.
  • "Egypt, along the Nile River, " she said, nervously twirling her hair.
  • A light morning mist covered the ground, twirling and twisting hypnotically.
  • Jeeze I never would have believed that twirly Brazilan I want to be a break dancer martial art could actually do any damage. cool! Best. Knockout. EH-VAR.
  • I did this by a type of two-step "twirl-scream" and, next I knew, I had spun out of the mosh pit (this, it turns out, with the help of several swift kicks in the fesse* by the aggravated "dancer" to my left). Cravacher - French Word-A-Day
  • If you can waltz, do the tango or even the lambada why not join Ballroom, Latin and Sequence Dancing at Twirles Leisure Complex in Northfleet?
  • The dancers before him danced and twirled just for him and it pleased him.
  • She took a few steps toward the door and twirled around to say, ‘See you around, hon!’
  • The phrase, which we mistranslate from the Portuguese, was first used by Brazilian players, who actually said they wanted to play beautifully, with lethal grace and twirling exhibitionism. The big picture: the England squad relax at their hotel in Leon, Mexico, on 14 June 1970
  • I would twirl in the vast ballrooms in my ragged skirt, pretending I was the most radiant lady at the ball.
  • The western side of the country/western equation is established by Froos's glittery Broadway cowgirl costume and by the gorgeous chorus girls' twirling of crepe-paper lariats.
  • She was playing with her hair, twirling an end with her finger. Times, Sunday Times
  • Around my finger I twirled a strand of hair that was no longer a dull mousy brown, but a shiny dark chocolate.
  • The room twirled in time; I dozed and daydreamed back to the past three Christmases. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
  • It's sort of a twist and twirl as he's bending down. Times, Sunday Times
  • He attempted a "moulinet," and twirled his sabre with the dexterity of The Celibates
  • they had a most twirlingly magnificent time
  • The illegible writing begins to shift and change, turning into a snake biting its own tail, which twirls in a circle.
  • A baton twirler carried the flag.
  • They've spun, tangoed, waltzed, rumbaed, salsaed, funked, jazzed, hip-hopped and twirled their little hearts out and now they're sashaying off into the sunset in an hour-long final.

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