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.
And her whirlwind rise to national sweetheart is not the only drastic change she has undergone this year. The Sun
It's been an absolute whirlwind since it happened, so it almost feels too far back in the past to remember. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
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.
A hot dry wind stirred up small whirlwinds of dust and sand, forcing her to squint.
Actually, the term whirlwind is a bit under the mark. Robyn Berkley: Moving In, Moving Out, Moving In
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
We just got back from a whirlwind trip to Ohio to attend Joe's brother's wedding.
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. Archive 2009-04-01
Perhaps that whirlwind romance was too fast. The Sun
For a desert people winds, rain, thunder, lightening, hurricanes, thunderbolts, whirlwinds, and other meteorological phenomena held tremendous fascination.
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.
The whirlwind romance took a little time to gather speed - just a quarter of a century.
Caithe got her name spoken on ten thousand lips: the woman who fought with the frenzy of a whirlwind. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
They had a whirlwind romance, and after a few months she'd started hinting for a ring.
Of my past, I have no knowledge - it is a whirlwind of forgotten yesterdays and yesteryears.
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
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
They married after a whirlwind romance.
A black whirlwind, they fill the air with the click of leathery wings as they spiral through the trees.
They are all over the place, engaging in a whirlwind of activity, planting patsy questions - even planting the supplementaries. Times, Sunday Times
They will spend Valentine's Day putting the final touches to their wedding following a whirlwind telephone romance.
After a whirlwind romance, they are married and work very hard to conceive a kid.
Genghis Khan, the king on the horse has left startling quiver memory at the Eurasia with the iron heel like the whirlwind.
It was such a idyllic setting, she could imagine herself having a whirlwind romance of sorts in Scotland.
A whirlwind start set the tone for the game: the exchanges were hard and physical and there were some fractious moments as tempers flared in the struggle for superiority.
It was the sublime abnegation of true love that comes to all lovers, and it came to him there, at the telephone, in a whirlwind of fire and glory; and to die for her, he felt, was to have lived and loved well. Chapter 12
The record was climbing the charts, I was in demand all over the place, whirlwind tours here there everywhere.
The whirlwinds wheel above, the floods convolve below. The Columbiad
But he admits he has quickly become disillusioned with the amateur game after rising from novice to world championship quarter-finalist in a whirlwind 16 months.
What about a 24 hour whirlwind wedding version of the above vegas trip ... just to say that you were married in Vegas? Vegas Pop Blog
Heading up to the top of the mountain for the afternoons finals the athletes were pummeled by high winds and dusty whirlwinds.
It would appear at first sight, as if the discovery of these vortices would at once remedy the great defect in the theory of Redfield, viz.: that no adequate cause is assigned for the commencement and continuation of the vorticose motion, in the great circular whirlwinds which compose a storm. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
As a conversationalist, Birkin is a whirlwind, skimming over subjects, lifting them up, reshaping them utterly before throwing them back down.
In fact she was in the middle of a whirlwind romance and probably already planning what to wear to her wedding. The Sun
A whirlwind final movement, allegro - andante - vivace molto capriccioso - with something of the feel of Bartók and Prokofiev, ends by quoting material from the earlier movements.
The two aircraft encountered terrific up and down drafts, along with whirlwinds, frequently driving the planes to within 25-ft of the ground.
I'VE lost my long blonde hair, eyelashes and eyebrows all because of a failed whirlwind romance. The Sun
On any given afternoon, unstable breezes and moisture ratchet up cumulonimbus clouds in a whirlwind of updrafts and downdrafts that cause particles of rain, ice, and snow to collide.
They married three months after they met - it was a real whirlwind romance.
We manage a whirlwind tour beneath some spectacularly striated sunset clouds of the older colleges, before changing for grad hall.
Michelle married him after a whirlwind romance .
Yet Soutine's existential outcries and fiery whirlwinds build to a state of natural beauty and calm—as if they could not have happened any other way. Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
What should we make of the latest whirlwind of diplomatic activity?
I had been running around southern England in a whirlwind of activity.
New York Social Diary is your link to the parties, events, openings, launches, shindigs, bashes, and general social whirlwind that is the East Coast social scene.
Now, having sown the fair wind of all that cheap money, they are reaping the whirlwind of economic disaster. Times, Sunday Times
After a whirlwind courtship, they married and went to live in Bath.
The work concludes with exciting, whirlwind restatements of the phrase.
Perhaps that whirlwind romance was too fast. The Sun
Erianne always set his senses on heightened alarm, even now when she was an emotional whirlwind.
Then she is bustling away, a whirlwind of activity, testing a pot of meaty soup with a spoon that she pulls out of nowhere, sticking a sliver of wood into a rising cake in an open oven to check that it is cooking.
The actor has enjoyed more than his fair share of media coverage recently concerning his whirlwind relationship and engagement, and then his soaking by pranksters on Sunday.
One is brown, loose, civilised, and there is this whirlwind next to it - the other - as black as the girl's rebellious hair.
The president embarked on a whirlwind tour of the provinces.
The trailer suggests a film that will envelop the viewer in a whirlwind of emotions.
Part of the force propelling that whirlwind is of course the backlash against the fragmentation of our culture and heritage which is occurring under the pressure of rapid mass migration and multiculturalism. Muslims Back Livingstone
You feel confident when it comes to love and a whirlwind romance could be in store. The Sun
We trot along in a whirlwind of dust, blinded, bewildered, jolted, we cling to the bar of the cacolet, shut our eyes, laugh and groan. Sac-Au-Dos 1907
Stacey and I brawled wildly, a flaming furry whirlwind of vampire and Mouser. Crossed
On Easter Sunday we bused to Newala and spent a whirlwind 5 days there - we explored my town, checked out my projects, went running with the Kilimanjaro Kids, and mountain biked our way through the bush to find a few worthy recipients of the many gifts that Katie and Brad bought. Visitors
In her words, ‘We are now reaping the whirlwind, the just reward for our scorn, and our neglect,’ during that time.
Throughout the prayers, a group of fascinating birds were wheeling and dipping above our heads as if they were on some kind of ornithological whirlwind tour of the airwaves surrounding the Temple Mount.
It was a whirlwind romance little approved of by her family.
The whirlwind velocity with which the larger combines recombine and split, enter and break off engagements, couple, reproduce offspring, contrive advantageous liaisons between progeny and distant cousins, and otherwise besport themselves in what sometimes seems like a corporate bacchanalia, has made it difficult for us to keep pace with all of it long enough to get it down on paper. Travels in Medialand
Our group spent a whirlwind two days diving the islands and experienced the full gamut of the caverns, caves and reefs that make up the Poor Knights experience.
The carefully controlled plan, the coup d'état they are preparing for, will collapse in a whirlwind of treachery and counterplots, and eventually they will be forced to abandon it.
The Whirlwind isn't the only superstar involved in this exhibition match in Sligo.
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. Jack Tweed to Remarry
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Times, Sunday Times
The juxtaposition of a cracking scherzo and lyrical trio was like going from the party whirlwind to the balcony outside. Times, Sunday Times
The bird gave an angry squawk and took to the air, a whirlwind of color and feathers.
As fall comes, and the leaves turn and swirl in colorful whirlwinds, we eagerly look forward to it.
'Yes,' said Margaret, rather sadly, remembering the never-ending commotion about trifles that had been going on for more than a month past: 'I wonder if a marriage must always be preceded by what you call a whirlwind, or whether in some cases there might not rather be a calm and peaceful time just before it.' North and South
The fiery Arizona speech was all the more striking given the whirlwind day that preceded it. Times, Sunday Times
Bannon used interviews with natives and local newsmakers to place the viewer in what he calls the "whirlwind" that was Palin's time as governor. NPR Topics: News
He met the wonderful Rosie and, after a whirlwind romance, they married.
Just as I approached the door, a whirlwind in the form of a small child shot out of the room, colliding with me and knocking me into the wall.
With big blue eyes the size of saucers and blond hair that looked like it was combed with an eggbeater, she was a whirlwind in motion. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
In a Q & A with Huffington Post Senior Editor Willow Bay, Arianna also reflected on that fateful Super Bowl Sunday when the Huffington Post's merger with AOL was announced, and the whirlwind of change and growth the organization has seen in the subsequent few months. A Night 'At Home With Arianna' Brings Together Old Friends And New Ideas
Theirs had been a real whirlwind romance - six weeks from their first meeting to their marriage.
The choreography Jones created for this musical is a whirlwind of ritual and nightclub dances, formed in West Africa but repeated throughout the world. 2010 Kennedy Center Honors Watch: Bill T. Jones
Devils, or pillars of sand, vertical and inclined, measuring a thousand feet high, rush over the plain lashing the sand at their base like a sea surging under a furious whirlwind; shearing the grass clean away from the roots, tearing up trees, which are whirled like leaves and sticks in air and sweeping away tents and houses as if they were bits of paper. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It's got to be what they call a whirlwind campaign or go without. If Winter Comes
Both are exuberant riots of colour, from the palest avocado to looming midnight blues, with great carefree splodges of paint and taught, pacy lines that spiral into little whirlwinds of detail.
Barry's daughter, Sinead, becomes a traffic warden and has a whirlwind romance with a man Barry hates.
To recover from the divorce, I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities.
You feel confident when it comes to love and a whirlwind romance could be in store. The Sun
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
Lindbergh had figured that his one Wright Whirlwind engine would burn 16 gallons per hour and had actually averaged just under 11.
Taking a whirlwind tempo, as he did, is one thing; but failing to inflect the smaller motivic units that comprise it is quite another.
Diane and Derek had a whirlwind courtship of two years and the question of the day was, where exactly did the happy couple meet?
She says:'It was a bit of a whirlwind romance. The Sun
New York Social Diary is your link to the parties, events, openings, launches, shindigs, bashes, and general social whirlwind that is the East Coast social scene.
As the czardas quickened until its pace reached the speed of a whirlwind, de Savignac suddenly staggered to his feet -- his breath coming in short gasps. A Village of Vagabonds
The quietness of the morning was broken by the whirlwind that usually accompanied Rebecca's appearance into the room.
And her whirlwind rise to national sweetheart is not the only drastic change she has undergone this year. The Sun
After a whirlwind courtship, they married and went to live in Bath.
Perhaps it is because it seems that if one finds natural explanations threatening, then the fact that our individual form is shaped by DNA instructions rather than inexplicably by God's hand, that whirlwinds and lightning can be explained in meteorological terms - in short, all of science should be threatening to a religious viewpoint that seeks to hold on to a prescientific view of the world. Archive 2007-09-01
They married after a whirlwind romance.
And we will reap a whirlwind if we push the Americans into a unilateralist position in which they are the centre of this unipolar world.
Her forthright manner and whirlwind energy raised the hackles of some of the old guard. Times, Sunday Times
What followed was a whirlwind of travel far from their simple bush home and a new life in sophisticated Vienna, a fairyland of enchanting castles and unimagined luxury.
It was a whirlwind romance, all right, and nobody could talk any sense into Freda.
The couple enjoyed a whirlwind romance after meeting each other in a Los Angeles hotel lobby in February.
Straddling two of the Indian subcontinent's mightiest rivers, the country is regularly drowned by flood crests surging downstream or scourged by whirlwinds from the sea.
My father was a whirlwind of activity. Times, Sunday Times
This article takes you on a whirlwind tour of soundfile editors for Linux.
Both are exuberant riots of colour, from the palest avocado to looming midnight blues, with great carefree splodges of paint and taught, pacy lines that spiral into little whirlwinds of detail.
More fairytale favourites are lampooned as Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona set out on another whirlwind adventure in the hilarious sequel, Shrek 2.
Sources claim the couple - who married last September after a whirlwind romance - have been having blazing rows and are on the verge of separating..
And her whirlwind rise to national sweetheart is not the only drastic change she has undergone this year. The Sun
The school was seriously damaged by a whirlwind.
Drinnen will savour the routine after a whirlwind two months.
In a brief whirlwind of activity the foundations were laid for the best railway anywhere in the world.
The fiery Arizona speech was all the more striking given the whirlwind day that preceded it. Times, Sunday Times
The whirlwind of toddlers has been and gone, (most of) the mess is tidied away, Akra Jr is in bed if not quite asleep yet.
Despite the crises unfolding around him, he has continued a whirlwind tour to promote his biography, a 900-page doorstopper.
If you want the definition of a whirlwind romance, this is surely it. The Sun
In a Q & A with Huffington Post Senior Editor Willow Bay, Arianna also reflected on that fateful Super Bowl Sunday when the Huffington Post's merger with AOL was announced, and the whirlwind of change and growth the organization has seen in the subsequent few months. A Night 'At Home With Arianna' Brings Together Old Friends And New Ideas
You feel confident when it comes to love and a whirlwind romance could be in store. The Sun
She addresses the feelings that result when the wedding invitations stop coming and the whirlwind is over. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Book Talk: She’s Gone Bridal by Liz Razin
But we reap the whirlwind of these brilliant ideas. Times, Sunday Times
After a whirlwind romance she married him six months ago. The Sun
There seems to be a bit of a craze sweeping the nation at the moment, a whirlwind of activity that can only be described as a mitten maelstrom. The A.D.D. Knitter--because why should knitting be any different?
Everyone had jitters, because their courtship was such a whirlwind. The Sun
Bradford's Lord Mayor is celebrating the city's diversity by embarking on a whirlwind series of cultural diary dates.
Perhaps that whirlwind romance was too fast. The Sun
After a whirlwind tour of the nearby Aquarium, Jupiter had his first potato knish - a turnover stuffed with mashed potatoes. JANAKY AND THE GIANT
There is an uneasy sensation akin to loss of control, a whirlwind that trips my balance, sweeps me off my steady feet and into a foggy daze at odd times of the day.
Surrounding me, encompassing my being as a whole, was a whirlwind of earth and wind, fire and water, increasing in intensity and speed.
When we speak, she's in London for a whirlwind promotional tour, including brief jaunts to Oxford and Dublin.
He got married after a whirlwind romance.
Since starting the whirlwind publicity tour to promote his autobiography, he has done his best to seem high-minded.
Life has become a whirlwind of theatricals, games, suppers, treasure hunts, and parties. Exit the Actress
All has passed, unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off, even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. The Ontario High School Reader
Outside the quaternion were the dancing Pauppukkeewis, the Whirlwind, and the fierce and shifty hero, Monobozho, the North-West Nature Mysticism
She now smiles with satisfaction as she looks back on a whirlwind two months that took her to new heights.
Her forthright manner and whirlwind energy raised the hackles of some of the old guard. Times, Sunday Times
Arid, dusty Jijiga is built on a vast plain where even the smallest breeze creates wind devils - whirlwinds of dust that rise high into the sky.
The whirlwind paced action inherently requires meticulous timing and control, which the cast display with consummate verve and flair.
Effervescent, lyrical, plangent, wistful by turns, this score surrounds the immortal hit "Le Tourbillon de La Vie" (The Whirlwind of Life), which Ms. Moreau and the composer Bassiak (playing her lover in the movie) made into a world-wide hit, although it had been written seven years earlier. For the Love of a Fickle Woman
He explained whirlwinds were formed in storm clouds.
The prototype aircraft was powered by a Wright R - 975 Whirlwind of 420-hp and the fuselage was constructed of steel tubing with wood and metal formers and wooden stringers.
He asks Marco to make the sale and thus begins a whirlwind of scams, mishaps, betrayals and reversals.
This chapter has been a whirlwind tour of the TCP/IP protocol suite, introducing many of the terms and protocols that we discuss in detail in later chapters.
From there the whirlwind events culminate in the discovery of the killer's identity.
To recover from the divorce, I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities.
The clouds raced overhead, full of energy, generating circles and twists, but not coming to anything and not promising anything dramatic in the way of a whirlwind.
You feel confident when it comes to love and a whirlwind romance could be in store. The Sun
But midway through they admitted being just friends - insisting they had split after a whirlwind romance. The Sun
Michelle married him after a whirlwind romance .
The whirlwind tour of Walt Disney World began in Disney's MGM Studios.
Perhaps that whirlwind romance was too fast. The Sun
Among other industrial spin-offs of Project Whirlwind was the minicomputer, developed by Kenneth Hogan of the Digital Equipment Corporation.
I had been running around southern England in a whirlwind of activity.
The next several weeks were a whirlwind of press conferences, interviews and champagne receptions, culminating in a trip to Stockholm for the prize ceremony in December.
She was introduced to Harry last summer by her younger sister, Michelle, and married him after a whirlwind romance.
A tornado or whirlwind was spotted in north Pembrokeshire last week by a local tornado enthusiast.
Since he unveiled his plan, there has been a whirlwind of contacts between the Government and insurgent groups as they position themselves for negotiations. Times, Sunday Times
Following a whirlwind romance, the two get hitched and jet off to Europe for a disastrous honeymoon - returning back to America at the point of separation.
After a whirlwind courtship, they married and went to live in Bath.
His inexhaustible gift of lightning repartee I saw illustrated on another occasion, when he presided at the midnight "gambol" of a Bohemian club, at which it needed the utmost tact and presence of mind to "ride the whirlwind and direct the storm. America To-day, Observations and Reflections
They are now reaping the whirlwind of a craven misjudgment. Times, Sunday Times
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the dead – cold hearths showed no traces of having ever been warmed but in heaps of soot that had tumbled down the chimneys, and eddied about in little dusky whirlwinds when the doors were opened. Little Dorrit
She was smart, cute, sassy, and I fell for her fast - a once in a lifetime whirlwind romance, you know?
If chemists have identified substances that have fallen in Europe as sand from African deserts, swept up in African whirlwinds, that's assuasive to all the irritations that occur to those cloistered minds that must repose in the concept of a snug, isolated, little world, free from contact with cosmic wickednesses, safe from stellar guile, undisturbed by inter-planetary prowlings and invasions. The Book of the Damned
I had been running around southern England in a whirlwind of activity.
Reminiscent of the fearless and attacking play of the 'Whirlwind' White in the 1980s, the free-flowing and seemingly care-free style of Trump appears to have revolutionised the game.
The first few weeks were a tense whirlwind of emotion.
Soon I would be thrust into the upper-class whirlwind of lies and false smiles.
The media whirlwind sprang from the ground quite on its own momentum, rewed up by an anxiety to encompass that trend of which she was such an incendiary symbol. Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
Without doubt the gutter press whirlwind contained no substance whatsoever.
a whirlwind a thousand leagues above the surface of the water, where a new atmosphere meets them and carries them into a capacious harbour in the moon -- A description of the inhabitants, and their manner of coming into the lunarian world -- Animals, customs, weapons of war, wine, vegetables, &c. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
It was such a idyllic setting, she could imagine herself having a whirlwind romance of sorts in Scotland.
At the time I would have compared her to a whirlwind, for wherever she went chaos and confusion invariably followed.
You feel confident when it comes to love and a whirlwind romance could be in store. The Sun
The plot, pure hokum, revolves around a whirlwind waterfront romance between Bill Roberts (Bancroft again), an independent-minded stoker, and Mae (Betty Compson), the ostensibly weak woman he just rescued from suicide. Master of the Mise-en-Scène
The machinery compose by two set of flour mill, whirlwind collect framework grid etc.
He had a point -- well, a sort of point -- but I was too busy reaping the whirlwind of the vodka. MUSIC FOR BOYS
Soon I would be thrust into the upper-class whirlwind of lies and false smiles.
But in "Tynan" - a one-man show running at Studio through Feb. 6 - Goodwin plays an ostentatious genius and social whirlwind who happened to be the grenade-lobber of modern theater criticism. A challenging role for a complex thespian
Having sown the wind, they reaped a whirlwind that blows to this day. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, it's that track which kick-starts the album in such compulsive fashion, unfolding in a headspinning whirlwind of fuzzy guitars and nasally vocals.
The man behind all this, Michael de Souza, 57 - unmistakeable in a Rastamouse-esque tam, which contains hair he has not cut for 30 years - is in the middle of what he describes as a whirlwind. Evening Standard - Home
I went to get water and other supplies at a whirlwind trip to the grocery store.
A novel of big ideas, the book's whirlwind plot is set between Berlin, Boston, Los Alamos and Auschwitz, and takes in neo-Nazis, a physics professor who returns to Potsdam to atone for his sins, an Italian postdoctorate who designs an experiment that will determine the fate of the universe, and a Holocaust survivor who tells his tale to the willing ear of a young psychologist. Omega minor and war protest
It's like a whirlwind version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but with more characters banging about and fewer insights into them.
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

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