How To Use Whir In A Sentence
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As he rode along the lanes, his nostrils filled with the heady scent of elderflowers, and the air was alive with stag beetles whose chunky black bodies whirred defiantly through the dusk.
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Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
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Here, we take a whirlwind global tour of foods that can help keep us healthy.
The Sun
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There was a sudden whir as the airplane started its engines.
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The filly's head whirled around and she nickered softly before fumbling toward me, nudging my palm as I held my hand out.
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In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed.
From Guyana to Guiana
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It is snapping and whirring, emitting a high-pitched tome like the mewling of a cat.
Death's Noisy Herald
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Lycoth cleared a path by whirling his two battleaxes.
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By June of this year the whirligig of politics had kicked the Conservatives out and put the Liberal Democrats in.
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To illustrate, No. 2 of Table 2 may be characterized as a "right whirler," for he turned to the right almost uniformly.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
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A whirling flash of sapphire suddenly rotated --- in a delirious foxtrot --- with Doc's own dizzy nimbus of gilded amber.
BEHINDLINGS
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From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings.
Birdology
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They can cause dust devils and whirlwinds, though these are nothing when compared to the immense dust storms that can occur.
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To hear the politicians tell it, life in the ghetto was a whirl of passion, welfare checks, and liquor.
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The water gurgled and purled, loudly at first, then softly, as a powerful foot-wide whirlpool took shape.
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Stradbally had opened in whirlwind fashion and had two goals on the scoreboard as an expected rout began.
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he was caught up in a whirl of work
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With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description.
Found While Looking for Something Else
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Hooping. org wishes everyone a whirly Wednesday, especially those of you in Rochester, New York, who attend the Whirly Wednesday Hoop Jams at 7pm in Genesee Valley Park.
Hooping.org | Blog | Whirly Wednesdays
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In October 1926, National Air Transport sent out a request for bids for a transport aircraft that could carry passengers or mail and be powered by a Wright Whirlwind radial.
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As the water rose it eddied into whirlpools that threatened to sweep her away.
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Then he arose and clomb the mast to see an there were any escape from that strait; and he would have loosed the sails; but the wind redoubled upon the ship and whirled her round thrice and drave her backwards; whereupon her rudder brake and she fell off towards a high mountain.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Cassie whirled about, dropped the stickweed, and came running, laughing.
The Dollmaker
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His mind was in a whirl and he was worried.
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My mind was in such a whir of confusion and disorder.
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The book's showbiz scenarios mock theatrical and film prototypes and stereotypes - the revolving cast and their scrimshank plaster-of-Paris mise-en-scene go round and round on the book's gigantic turntable, a shambolic revue, a whirlwind farce ...
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When your brain is whirring constantly with the almost infinite depths of chess, behind the wheel of a Porsche is not where you should be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Local fishing crews had told him of the Lombok Strait's fiendishly shifting currents, vicious whirlpools, and unexpected waves far from shore.
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You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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That music is the creative force at work, the whirr of the loom of the Eternal; it is the golden-snooded Muses at song.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Other options include Chaos, which whirls you into oblivion, and the Inverter, with its extreme G-force action.
Las Vegas: Sights Beyond The Slots
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They've been whirling around the rink all week in preparation, but whose moves will light up the ice panel?
The Sun
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The London duo have embarked on a whirlwind tour of the past two decades of dance music on their third album.
Times, Sunday Times
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The news of the death of Norris McWhirter will sadden everyone who knew him.
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A scrunchy havoc of whip, sleigh bells, saxophones, bass guitar, as well as the full forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Nibelung note of a household hammer for good measure, bashed, danced and whirled through this 15-minute non-stop toccata.
BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet
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Gradually the square becomes a whirl of people.
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Here you can ride the waves in the pool, have fun on the flumes and slides, take it easy in the hot whirlpool or simply put your feet up and read a book.
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Miraculously, Posada managed to find the ball, whirl and throw a perfect peg down to second to impale the Impaler.
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It has altered the position of the siphuncle, has placed it in the centre instead of leaving it on the back, but it still whirls its spiral logarithmically as did the Ammonites in the earliest ages of the world's existence.
The Life of the Spider
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As I soaked in the hot water to wake up, my brain was awhirl in a multitude of thoughts.
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_ -- The whirl is the upstroke in all looped letters.
The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents
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Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
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Your excitement was infectious as you laughed and gasped as we were whirled and twisted.
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I could feel his mind whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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While sternwards whirled unstrungpale beads of foam,
Morning at Sea in the Tropics
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Things are beginning to stir in Lancaster's Ryelands Park this spring and local people are needed to help turn the breeze into a whirlwind.
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Now why cannot we have restaurants or bars with billiard rooms, dartboards, whirlpool and snooker tables?
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The only sound is the whirr of the freewheels and the hoosh of hard exhalations.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs
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The turbine ventilator (also known as "whirlybird") is one of the many types of roof vents available, preferred by some because it uses a wind-propelled fan instead of an electric fan to draw heat and moisture out of the attic space.
Shaister Miester Do Da
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According to the dictionary, birred means: “To make or move with a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.”
I HEART BACON
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The long, hot dusty afternoons, where time hangs still, and dry leaves fly in sad whirls before collapsing to the ground, the inertia and sloth that drives even the most energetic into a huddle, the sense of despair.
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And holiday homeowners also get their own country club with steam room, whirlpool bath, sauna and fitness room.
The Sun
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As I scurried to retrieve my smalls, the whirr of a dozen camera motor drives signalled that the whole unhappy episode was being captured on film.
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Caught in a whirlwind of high times, hard drugs and harder comedowns, the singer made a botched suicide attempt and began to overdose on a regular basis.
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The frigate turned around glowing with jet engines, aimed at the center of the moveless Galaxy spiral whirlpool and started gaining speed.
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The machine whirred to life and slowly began descending.
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As I soaked in the hot water to wake up, my brain was awhirl in a multitude of thoughts.
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Her mind was awhirl with thoughts, none of them pleasant and all of them directed at Armand.
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Delays over her bathtub had occurred partly because the board prohibited whirlpool tubs, and partly because she had paused momentarily in revising her plans.
Times, Sunday Times
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The campaign is flat out, and so is the prime minister, a whirlwind of argument, arms flailing, fingers stabbing.
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I know this is of no use to you right now, but next year, when the jewelweed is in full and happy growth, harvest some leaves and whirl them in a blender with a little water, pour the slurry into an ice cube try, and freeze.
Revenge of the Iron Fairies
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These frozen, silent moments were punctuated by the hum, whir and click of slide projectors changing and revolving, reminding us of their outdatedness and sheer physicality.
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Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount.
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And her whirlwind rise to national sweetheart is not the only drastic change she has undergone this year.
The Sun
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Then, last Saturday, Liverpool adjusted to cope with the pre-match loss of two key players, came back from conceding an early goal, and proceeded to thoroughly humiliate Manchester United at Old Trafford: "Ferguson, standing on the touchline in a coat reminiscent of Michael Foot, had the legs cut from under him and took to twitching from a seat in the dugout," whilst Wayne Rooney was reduced to an arm-whirling figure of anger and despair.
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Ara te mea mohio taunga noa ki roto i te mahi hai tauira, hai pouwhirinaki ma te tauhou.
ScreenTalk
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He whirled her round until she felt quite sick.
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It's been an absolute whirlwind since it happened, so it almost feels too far back in the past to remember.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the asymmetric, twisting, flailing impetus of Petronio's signature style dialled right up, they often appear to be battling the elements: they're hurled across the stage in whirling, lop-sided turns or jagged leaps.
Stephen Petronio Company – review
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Feffer in the furious whirling of his spirit took hint for a fixed point.
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A new couple whirled onto the dance floor and snatched her attention.
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They said late-night displays and a constant stream of excessive noise caused by the whirr of rides and screams from thrill-seekers had made their lives a ‘nightmare’.
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The next two days passed in a whirl of activity .
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Being a son of the wilderness, Owen Dugdale had probably never heard of the kindred terrors that used to lie in wait for the bold mariners of ancient Greece -- the rock and the whirlpool known as Scylla and
Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan
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A whirlwind of a third movement, with its Bartók pizzicati, brought something of the sound world of the last movement of the Barber Violin Concerto.
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She's a whirlwind of anger and violence, desperate to deny the finality of Rocky's affliction that she knew she would one day have to face.
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The leaves whirled in the wind.
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You set an angle on the dial, put a piece of wood on the surface and then big whirling blades of death chomp down and cut a perfect mitre joint for you.
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The Whirlpool galaxy, M 51 , has been one of photogenic galaxies in amateur and professional astronomy.
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[GALEODIA HODGII] Shell rather thick; elliptical, obtuse; whirls about five, inflated, and ornamented with numerous fine spiral lines, which are quite prominent at base; these, with the fine lines of growth, give the surface a cancellated appearance; collumellar lip marked with many irregular plicae; aperture nearly twice the length of the spire.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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With a sudden gushing sound, the fans on the ceiling whirred into movement.
DESPERADOES
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The piece is a political whirligig but also a play of ideas, about the politics of life as much as the life of politics, which also includes insights into two very different marriages.
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Officials had given them another whirl and succeeded.
Times, Sunday Times
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It begins with snowdrops and ends with blackbirds celebrating choral evensong, and the rookeries, in whirling dervish mood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pattaya City Hall was the first stop on their whirlwind tour, when at 11: 00 a.m. on May 5th, accompanied by escorts and news hounds, the Miss Thailand hopefuls were greeted by Mayor Pairat and the entire city administration.
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-- N.S. (Fig. 141.) Shell fusiform, contracted above the body-whirl, and forming thereby a sub-cylindrical spire; spire obtuse apex papillated and hooked; body-whirl plaited longitudinally at its top; columellar lip furnished with only two plaits.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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The "mummery" consisted in slow, gliding motions, in whirlings about intended to be graceful, in slow liftings of the hands upward, and in the beating of the drums.
Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron
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But hey, I can mount a pair of rando bindings in an hour, so why not give them a whirl?
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A blond woman, wearing the Imperial crown and with her hair braided in pigtails like a German _backfisch_, is whirling in the tango with a skeleton partner.
Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
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The wide range of works includes quilts, rugs, needlework, paintings, works on paper, weather vanes, whirligigs, decoys, and painted furniture.
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All snug in our pajamas, we are whooshed off to Katroo, where the Birthday Bird takes us for a whirwind day of Mustard-Off pooling, time-telling fishing, and Birthday Pa-alacing on and on and on till it ends.
Tornato Number Two Turns Six
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A hot dry wind stirred up small whirlwinds of dust and sand, forcing her to squint.
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There must be routs and balls beneath sparkling chandeliers, where young gallants whirl sloe-eyed, bare-shouldered girls in the schottische and the carmagnole.
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He miscalculated the tides and the whirlpool dragged the outboard engine off his boat and capsized it.
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I'm pulled, whirling through the water free and weightless, and the movements take on a dreamy quality, as if I'm in slow motion.
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It's just whirling round and round from Antarctica.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as Ray whirled to flee, the guy with the knife slammed into him, bulldogging him face-first into the wall.
Black Dust Mambo
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All follow a similar pattern, juxtaposing ‘free’ sections - in rhythms derived from operatic recitative that recurrently explode into whirligig scales and arpeggios - with fugato sections of varying degrees of formal rigidity.
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Actually, the term whirlwind is a bit under the mark.
Robyn Berkley: Moving In, Moving Out, Moving In
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I often wake in the night with worries whirling around my head and cannot go back to sleep.
Times, Sunday Times
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It comes hot on the heels of a £1.5 million investment at the hotel to provide a leisure facility, including swimming pool, whirlpool, large gym and sauna.
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The five days needed to reach it after it first appeared on the horizon had been fraught with danger: a dozen rapids, violent eddies that whirled the Explorer around “like a teetotum,” interspersed with innumerable reaches through which the boat had to be towed by a dozen men hauling upon fraying ropes or by a battered skiff with splintered oars.
Colossus
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The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy
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To one side is flowering vegetation and to the other an alert exotic bird shrieks from a ball finial beside a potted berried bush and a teapot, insects and butterflies whirl above.
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An historical failure as a Nation to protect our selves from the greatest threat of all, extreme ignorance, hubris and greed in power. whispered on the whirlwind .....
Brennan: Cheney wrong to criticize Obama
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She said she overcame the whirlies by "hanging out" daily on the ledge before the cameras rolled.
Snapshot: Don't Look Down!
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The gravelly whir of wheels on pavement is subtle, while motorcycle engines throb and roar.
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There was a considerable amount of equine rebellion as horses spooked, bolted and whirled.
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She shot an ice-charged projectile down at the scimitars, but the whirling cutters diced it to ribbons in the blink of an eye.
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A circular whirlpool tub takes spotlight in the splendid master bathroom, facing the huge walk-in shower.
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Wen dey know u du caer aboudem, dey can be deh moze affecshunate ammals in deh whirld.
MOM! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Ohio to attend Joe's brother's wedding.
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One piece of ceiling crashed down in front of me in a whirl of dust.
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Mr Cash said, Jack has sought love to overcome his grief at the loss of Jade, and while in remand has had a whirlwind courtship with his new love, his cellmate armed robber 'Reamer' McGee on C Block.
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In a hurly-burly whirl of tunes and groovy jives, Macbeth: The Rock Opera, which puts on its final performance at the Guild Theatre tonight, is rocking audiences, young and old.
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In a blender, combine 2 tablespoons of the canned chipotles ' sauce, 1 cup catsup, and 1 chipotle chili; whirl smooth.
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Barney whirls on him and glares - eyes big as goose eggs, lips pursed and bloodless.
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The wind grew fiercer, sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air.
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Perhaps that whirlwind romance was too fast.
The Sun
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a desert people winds, rain, thunder, lightening, hurricanes, thunderbolts, whirlwinds, and other meteorological phenomena held tremendous fascination.
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It was a whirl of motion; things moved so fast Chrysta could hardly keep up.
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Her mind was whirling with the fact that he'd kissed her back.
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It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159).
Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
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It was not really a holiday, just a big social whirl, but that was what you did for a holiday then.
Times, Sunday Times
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To say it has been a whirlwind for the 26-year-old would be like saying Franz Ferdinand's year was, well, fair to middling.
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The whirlwind romance took a little time to gather speed - just a quarter of a century.
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Every now and then a car rumbled over the bumpy dirt road, leaving behind a whirl of white dust.
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Recreation amenities include a half-mile of private ocean beach, two pools, private cabanas, a whirlpool, and a variety of watersports.
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The blind old owl, whirring out of the hollow tree, quite amazed at the disturbance, flounced into the face of a ploughboy, who knocked her down with a pitchfork.
The Newcomes
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She whirled, one hand still on the grit-spalled floor, and saw indistinct figures struggling in a tunnel of spiraling dust.
Sun of Suns
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I worked the carousel and the bumper cars and the Tilt-A-Whirl.
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They were both caught up in a whirling vortex of emotion.
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second day of the trip is set aside for the team to enjoy the hotel's leisure centre, which has a sauna, whirlpool and indoor swimming pool.
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From time to time, the flash of her camera lights up the dust in whirling clouds.
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We stood on a cliff at the southern tip of Deer Island, staring down at the rips, eddies, and whirlpools tearing through the water below.
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Within seconds, the few whirling ripples had smoothed back into an undisturbed mirror surface, reflecting the dark blue of the fading evening sky.
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Once we had lined up outside, the whir of the engines sounded.
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Once the sack whirled about his head, twice, and then it arcked toward the galley, dropping to its deck unnoticed by men frantically cutting away the flaming sail.
Conan The Unconquered
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Caithe got her name spoken on ten thousand lips: the woman who fought with the frenzy of a whirlwind.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Towards evening, the air about the Hut was quite still except for gusts from the north and rather frequent "whirlies.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Similarly, instead of being thrown off into space by their movement round the sun, the planets would gravitate towards the centre of their whirlpool.
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Blood from Forster's broken body was floating away in clouds, finally swirling in a whirlpool above the drain.
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The fog whirled and eddied around her as she stepped out into the cobblestone street.
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whir of a bird's wings
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) during a powhiri ceremony -- a traditional Maori ceremony which takes place when manuhiri, or visitors, and tangata whenua, or people of the land, meet, in honour of the new UNDP Administrator.
WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report
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They had a whirlwind romance, and after a few months she'd started hinting for a ring.
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Before Matt could reply, the woman had whirled past him and stopped about two inches from my face.
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Their motion through the bushes often disturbed clouds of yellow butterflies, which had been hanging on the fringes of the tall purple asters, and which rose toying with each other, and fluttering in ethereal dances against the blue sky, looking like whirls and eddies of air-flowers.
Oldtown Folks
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The whirling flavours release bitter-sweet lime, aromatic bitters and fiery ginger with every twist.
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
Times, Sunday Times
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This starts with Yat-kha mimicking the horns and cymbals of the monks, then slowly builds through a stately procession to a whirligig masked stomp.
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Of my past, I have no knowledge - it is a whirlwind of forgotten yesterdays and yesteryears.
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There was a whirring sound, then the clock's chime marked a quarter to midnight.
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While the boardroom vacuum persists, though, takeover speculation will continue to whirl around the company.
Times, Sunday Times
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As one looks upward at the wall, one can find the serpentine road clinging to the mountain just like a snake with numerous whirls.
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Of reboant whirlwinds;’ and to the question, ‘Why not believe, then?’ we have as answer a simile of the sea, which cannot slumber like a mountain tarn, or
Alfred Tennyson
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The next four minutes are a whirl of high-octane activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
You think because a chimpanzee knows you, he doesn't hate you?
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Here we found the flood fetting eafl: - by-north, and the ebb wefl: - by-fouth; there were flioals and fmall iflands between us and the main, which caufed the tide to fet very incondantly, and make many whirl - ings in the water j yet \ye did not find the tide to fet ftrong any way, nor the water to rife much.
Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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For the entire ride, those same questions whirled through his head with mind-numbing intensity.
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He shrank so fast, he made a whirring sound.
CHARMED LIFE
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Since they and their bank colleagues were quite willing to reap the profits, they should also be made to reap the whirlwind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away.
The Sun
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Then sunlight. ashed on metal, and the sound became distinct, a clanking and whirring of giant bronze wings.
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rising smoke whirled in the air
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If you are deeply disturbed by the sinister implications, both corporate and gustatory, imagine my shock as I reeled out of the supermarket, my mind awhirl with the grisliest of possibilities, only to come upon this terrible scene at the docks, mere minutes away (click to enlarge):
The Cannibals of Galway
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A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre.
The Common Law
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Quickly, a whirlpool began to form at the center of the river.
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She left them, and made her way back to her bunk, her mind whirling.
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The car with its whirring air conditioning was like an oxygen mask.
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In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed.
From Guyana to Guiana
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The clock began to whirr before striking the hour.
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After an energetic day outdoors, Nicole and her friends can relax their muscles in the hotel's whirlpools, sauna, and steam room.
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Yet behind this relaxed, fun surface, deep within there is a serious streak whirring away.
Times, Sunday Times
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She whirled to see Wheateye race through her door and down her walk, then spring, monkey-like, from garbage-can top to coalshed roof.
The Dollmaker
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At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring.
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To topple their rivals, Zhao dreams of launching Shen into mid-air with the spin to whirl an additional 360 degrees and still touch down in stride.
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A waterspout is a whirling body of water, which rises from the sea like a sharp-pointed pillar.
The Coral Island
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The analysis of helicity also revealed that under the updraft, the conversion from the horizontal whirlpool into the vertical whirlpool is one of the possible mechanisms of the event.
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Suddenly, they all turn and start scrabbling down the path, the sound of a helicopter echoing overhead and sending a cloud of crows whirling into the sky.
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They reminded me of bees and flies, and sometimes with a strong light on them they were like those small polished black and silvery-white beetles (Gyrinus) which we see in companies on the surface of pools and streams, perpetually gliding and whirling about in a sort of complicated dance.
Afoot in England
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When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him.
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It beeped and whirred to life, the hard-drive sounding its soft purr as it accessed the system files needed to rouse the little giant.
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Ask for one with a double whirlpool bath.
The Sun
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They married after a whirlwind romance.
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You can almost see the political and moral brain whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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Residents can book a massage or manicure in the spa, which has a whirlpool bath.
Times, Sunday Times
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But then -'Then,' said Avery with the voice of experience,'the fan starts whirring.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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It was quite a sight, after the War and four years of dreary austerity in England, to see girls whirling round the dance floor in pretty full-length evening dresses in gay colours.
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Second generation No. 410, Left whirler No. 415, Right whirler
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
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Delays over her bathtub had occurred partly because the board prohibited whirlpool tubs, and partly because she had paused momentarily in revising her plans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fashimir Ander came whirling up the spiral trackway, his gown fluttering, his sleeves like kites.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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He slid into schooling like an athlete lowering himself into a whirlpool, feeling the heat deep in his tissue.
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The shell is fusiform and thick, and has a conical spire and a papillated apex; whirls, convex and contracted near the sutures, and the two principal whirls are ornamented with short ribs; lines of growth distinct, and crossed by faint revolving lines; plaits, two and rather distant, and faint indications of an intermediate one.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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-- N.S. (Fig. 147.) Shell small, thick, sub-acute; whirls, seven or eight; apex sub-tuberculated, constricted above, and traversed spirally by rather coarse raised lines; apex papillated, and the first whirl is spirally lined, and without tubercles or short ribs.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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Extemporaneous comedies were no longer played in the great cities, and Odo listened with surprise to the swift thrust and parry, the inexhaustible flow of jest and repartee, the readiness with which the comedians caught up each other's leads, like dancers whirling without a false step through the mazes of some rapid contradance.
The Valley of Decision
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But then stranger things happen every day in the whirligig of Taiwan life.
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But teh whirled peas iz messee adn skwishes atween mai toze!
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