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UK
/wˈɜːlwɪnd/
]
[ US /ˈhwɝɫˌwɪnd, ˈwɝɫˌwɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˈhwɝɫˌwɪnd, ˈwɝɫˌwɪnd/ ]
NOUN
- a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth
How To Use whirlwind In A Sentence
- Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
- Here, we take a whirlwind global tour of foods that can help keep us healthy. The Sun
- They can cause dust devils and whirlwinds, though these are nothing when compared to the immense dust storms that can occur.
- Stradbally had opened in whirlwind fashion and had two goals on the scoreboard as an expected rout began.
- 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.
- 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 ... Comments for RealityStudio
- The London duo have embarked on a whirlwind tour of the past two decades of dance music on their third album. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- 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.
- The campaign is flat out, and so is the prime minister, a whirlwind of argument, arms flailing, fingers stabbing.