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Example sentences for "swirled"

Lexicographically close words:
swink; swipe; swiped; swiping; swirl; swirling; swirls; swish; swished; swishing
  1. Long after the multitude had passed, the vast and composite voice of it reëchoed through the forest; the dust eddied and swirled among the trees.

  2. Time and again the boat grazed great rocks, and more than once Alex’s pole prevented a head-on collision with half-exposed boulders against which the mad waters swirled with terrible force, sending spray high up in the air.

  3. Clay saw the opportunity and headed the boat out a trifle and put the whole force of the motors against a rushing eddy which swirled just ahead.

  4. It was not; for a trooper engaged in staring stupidly at the velvety black circle out of which the intruding light seemed to spring, suddenly threw up his hands, swirled round, and fell face upwards in a crumpled heap.

  5. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, and scattered leaves before Her on the clean, flagged path.

  6. At Their feet the river swirled and chucked.

  7. Valets de pied' run about in ones, and twos, and groups, like swirled blown leaves.

  8. They stood dazed and confused outside the Grand Central station looking with amazed eyes on the roar and confusion of traffic that swirled by them.

  9. Although the snow swirled and the wind screamed through the vessel's funnel stays and lofty wireless aerials as if it would root them out, every window and porthole on her three lofty decks glowed with a cheerful yellow light.

  10. The lively strains of an orchestra were occasionally swirled away on the fierce wind, when the door of the main saloon swung open to admit or give egress to a passenger.

  11. Then they were hurled from these dizzy tops to the flat, moaning gulf, to the glassy, inky horror that swirled and whirled between ten waves.

  12. Small fish came sliding and flickering, and all the outlandish creatures of the deep rose by his bobbing craft and swirled and sped away.

  13. The rush and the roar swirled to the right and to the left, leaving the little band as if in an eddy, untouched and serene, with the glow of the fire upon it and the stars paling overhead.

  14. He kicked more up, until it swirled around him in a thick gold haze, blotting out the terrible emptiness of the sea.

  15. His legs worked, his chest heaved, words swirled in his mind.

  16. We looked down into a trough of driving mist, which sometimes swirled aside and showed a knuckle of black rock far below.

  17. Presently I had left the coast and was in a glen where a brown salmon-river swirled through acres of bog-myrtle.

  18. He repeated the song which he had been singing, and the wind as it swirled about the house must have caught his voice and carried it far.

  19. He called out sharply as the others followed him, and standing very still when they came up with him, they saw a white face that moved as the stream swirled about it looking up at them.

  20. Appleby glanced at the froth that swirled past the gunwale, and turned to Harper.

  21. The river, however, still shone faintly as it swirled round the pool beneath the bridge, and the men stopped a moment and leaned upon the single rail.

  22. As Kate sank slowly into the depths of a leather covered chair, the much-discussed coat, a fitting garment for a princess, with its ample cut and voluminous unstinted hem, swirled gracefully about her feet.

  23. She sighed as she watched the town fade and then a snowflake, featherlike and moist, swirled under the projecting roof and melted on her cheek, to recall her to herself.

  24. The wagon disappeared instantly, the blizzard swirled about her and the flickering lantern was only a tiny glowworm in the blackness which enveloped her.

  25. The Swede swirled his little round hat on his equally round little head and winked rapidly as he gave vent to his indignant protest.

  26. He went foaming up the steps, was swept violently into the ticket office, and was swirled away like a bobbing cork into the train.

  27. The guard was overwhelmed, caught in the backwash, and swirled somewhere, anywhere, out of sight and knowledge.

  28. Clouds of water-fowl swirled and descended upon the bars, to rest in their flight to their nesting grounds.

  29. The wind and the snow came in at the cracks in winter, and in summer the rain beat through and the red dust swirled along the floor, but we paid little attention to such things.

  30. The gray mists of morning swirled this way and that, blown not so much by nature's wind as by the bursts from the flaming mouths of great guns.

  31. The fog swirled around them in cold, white clouds.

  32. The sun, shining on this, caused the moisture to condense into fog that swirled about here and there.

  33. It was like watching a hallucination, he thought, as colors swirled around the fuselage of an object seemingly composed of 3-D lines and curves.

  34. The confusion of the shootout swirled in his mind.

  35. The white mists of the hangar swirled around them, creating ghostly shadows across the expressionless faces of the kobun.

  36. It swirled slowly back and down the valley.

  37. The white flakes swirled and drifted all about them, but the thick branches of the tree, growing low down, made a place like a green tent.

  38. There was, the flakes coming down almost as thick and fast as when the blizzard first swirled about Cedar Camp.

  39. The same muddy waves rose but never broke; the same tidal current swirled and eddied downstream.

  40. For in the eddies of the wharf piles swirled strange things from the inland bush.

  41. The whole upper atmosphere was choked with dense clouds, which swirled and tumbled, and twisted themselves into great vortical rolls, spinning like gigantic millshafts.

  42. The swollen river reared back at the narrow pass through the Taunus range, and formed a huge eddy that swirled over the old city of Bingen.

  43. The air in the room was clear, completely free of the misty whirling methane ammonia of death that swirled around them outside.

  44. Strong started forward, then stopped, as a particularly heavy cloud of the deadly gas swirled around them.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swirled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.