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Example sentences for "swirls"

Lexicographically close words:
swiped; swiping; swirl; swirled; swirling; swish; swished; swishing; switch; switchback
  1. But when it swirls down the eddy, and comes to rest by an overhanging rock, where the shadows are dark and the water deep, its song is hushed, as if in fear of disturbing the wary trout that lie in hiding in the depths of the pool.

  2. They fished all day, and caught nothing save and except numerous dead branches in the narrow swirls of the linn.

  3. Then she turned the head of the boat up the pool of the Black Watery Something white floated dancingly alongside, upborne for a moment on the boiling swirls of the rising water.

  4. Patterson frequently fished below the bridge at Lawrence and observed that heads of softshells were often seen there about dusk and that the turtles seemed to prefer a rather shallow, quiet-water area of swirls and eddies for feeding.

  5. But the snow which was now sweeping along in white swirls seemed to shroud even the lightning.

  6. It was also very dusty--two or three inches of powdery dust under our feet, which whipped up in little swirls at the least breath of air.

  7. When, later, the sea grew confused and full of swirls and boiling, I said to myself: "This must be the tail of the Goodwins.

  8. Swirls of cloud form and pass beneath one in the gorge and hurry up the opposing face of the ravine; they add to this impression of silence: and the awful height of the pines and the utter remoteness from men in some way enhance it.

  9. They had not long to wait for soon all the Ocean was a glitter with the swirls of the ninefold Monster who was coming to shore with the captive Sun in his keeping.

  10. Nearer and nearer came the swirls of the nine-coiled Monster.

  11. This time the Serpent came in six mighty swirls with six awful heads that reared up one after another.

  12. Just at this point the water swirls and lingers; having lost all its fierceness and haste, and spreads itself out placidly, dimpling in the sun.

  13. At the lip of the tide, where it came creaming up the beach in long soft swirls of amber, laced with bubbles and edged with filmy foam, she was for snatching him up.

  14. It was a true highland stream, with deep dark-blue pools, and great swirls of icy grey water sweeping round crags or stretching out into glistening shallows.

  15. How softly and eagerly this coming tide swirls round them!

  16. At the Almond mouth, over which it straggles thinly in summer to join the swirls of the Tay, is believed to have stood the Roman station that may or may not have been the original Perth.

  17. Here and there little swirls of smoke showed that fires were burning in the forest, though none seemed to be close to the range.

  18. The river Moracha has cut itself a deep chasm in the loose soil between us and the town, and tears along in blue-green swirls and eddies.

  19. The roast-meat man brandished his knife over an impaled lamb roasted whole, which sent up a rich odour and oily swirls of steam in the sunshine.

  20. There is a fine wooded walk by the river, which swirls round a huge crag.

  21. Its narrow channel is broken by huge masses of rock over which the water foams and swirls in wild fury.

  22. In stormy weather the surroundings of the little lake are inconceivably wild and forbidding, and the wind swirls about in this hollow of the rocks until Llyn Idwal boils like a sea.

  23. Swirls of dust lay on the mosaic floor, and a stale smell of decayed fruit and salt air and steaming asphalt filled the place like a fog.

  24. He noticed the swirls of dust in the cracks of the pavement, the rubbish in the gutters, the ceaseless stream of perspiring faces that poured by under tilted hats.

  25. At last, where the spray swirls like smoke, And the river roars in a cauldron of green, The poet feels his fat arms quiver And his eyes and ears drowned and exalted In the reverberance of the fall.

  26. The streets are full of lilacs that trail long swirls and eddies of fragrance arabesques of fragrance like the arabesques that form and fade in the fleeting ripples of the jade-green river.

  27. The vessel urges her way onwards across swirls and eddies innumerable which betray the presence of shoals and the vigorous strife of opposing currents.

  28. The rain swirls into the open front, and wets the bottom of the blankets.

  29. Sighing heavily, the old servant bared her arm and leaned over to stir the water, to draw down by long, elliptical swirls of motion the heated upper layers into cold strata at the bottom.

  30. Just before one o'clock yellow swirls of dust and sand appeared near the landspit which we were making for.

  31. Though the little that is left of the stream still swirls and foams, the ice becomes thicker, and at last covers almost all the bed, and the water is heard rushing and murmuring under it.

  32. Tingeing the water a dim red, the immense fish was tearing to and fro in wild fury, lashing across the entrance like lightning, drawing the water in swirls and whirlpools that came near to dragging out Mart despite his grip on the wreck.


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