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Example sentences for "gyrating"

Lexicographically close words:
gyptians; gyptische; gypto; gyrate; gyrated; gyration; gyrations; gyratory; gyre; gyrfalcon
  1. Ordinarily the formation of these ejections and envelopes is attended by intense agitation of the nucleus, which twists and turns, swinging and gyrating with an appearance of the greatest violence.

  2. The focus itself is splitting asunder under the intolerable strain, and in a little while, as time is reckoned in the Cosmos, it will be gyrating into stars.

  3. It was an amusing touch to see the fairy-like creature smiling good-naturedly, while the lumbering fellow who was dancing with her, or who should have been dancing with her, was gyrating beyond her reach.

  4. Then they would whirl around to a sort of waltz-step, which the man in tights would wind up by clasping the Columbine firmly around the waist and gyrating so rapidly that her body was thrown out at right angles to his own.

  5. Their King has become a King Popinjay; with his Maurepas Government, gyrating as the weather-cock does, blown about by every wind.

  6. And still the fishing-boat, gyrating like a leaf, remained afloat with its crew of half-crazed Arabs.

  7. Their yells reverberating to the vaulted roof, the smoking torches gyrating wildly above them, the throng of crazed fanatics were now upon their feet, crowding toward the platform, every tongue clamoring in incessant demand.

  8. Again he let go; again it sprang bobbing and gyrating into the air; and again he jumped back in alarm.

  9. As he shot the plane higher, great forces smote it, gray Earth and green satellite and yellow sun gyrating round it as it reeled and plunged.

  10. Norman was fighting the controls--land and sea were gyrating up to them with dizzy speed--crash!

  11. Only the central space of shining parquet was void within the double circle of gyrating dancers.

  12. To the strange barbaric music of the dance from Sao Paulo men and women were gyrating and posturing, gliding and pausing, as other men and women had done at the Milles Plaisirs.

  13. A train of gearing is driven by the gyrating disk which operates a set of dial pointers and a measure of the amount of water passing through the meter is indicated.

  14. Hilda was deathly sick; objects were gyrating before her eyes; she felt a hideous nightmare sensation of unreality, and was filled with an intense contempt, a tragic disgust for herself.

  15. Then the river opened, the cliffs fell away, and the torrent spewed itself out into an expanse of whirlpools--a lake of gyrating funnels that warred with one another and threatened to twist the keel from under the boat.

  16. This descent will take place down a spiral, gyrating in the order N.

  17. But at that instant there came a fresh swoop of wind that set the plane gyrating more violently than ever.

  18. Then we advanced stealthily towards the gyrating mass of animal fury and played on it.

  19. As I watched her swiftly-moving and gyrating figure, I was filled with pity for myself and others--for all that vast multitude of humans who could never again recover the fine, free Spirit of Youth.

  20. The man blinked into the glare, across which sand-devils of whirlwinds were once more gyrating over a whiteness ending in dunes that seemed to be peppered with camel-grass.

  21. Not in bursts of flame did they go plunging down the depths, gyrating like mad comets with long smoke-trailers and redly licking manes of fire.

  22. A gigantic negro, flourishing two great naked sabers, and gyrating in a barbaric war-dance, headed it.

  23. Tiring of their fruitless attempts, they would fly away and join the dance of the gyrating crowd.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gyrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    reeling; rolling; spinning; swirling; turning; whirling