The sacred fire is made by friction, a vertical stick of Rhodomyrtus tomentosus being twirled by means of a cord in a socket let into a thick bough of Debregeasia velutina.
The medicine-men twirled it rapidly, and with a uniform motion, about the head and from front to rear, and succeeded in faithfully imitating the sound of a gust of rain-laden wind.
Then Brownwell put on his hat, twirled his cane effusively, and bade Barclay an elaborate adieu.
A wave meter on one of the benches attracted his attention and he twirled its knob.
Me and Bill," and she lifted a big, blue-barreled revolver from the faded green plush of the seat and twirled it unconcernedly on her thumb.
When she had stowed the bag away and twirled the combination lock, she rearranged the cushion and took her seat again, all without answering Sally's anxious question.
Sally, her cheeks poppy-red with excitement and pleasure in her success in the school play, twirled lightly on the toe of her silver slipper, so that her pink chiffon skirt belled out like a ballet dancer's.
He cast a last admiring glance at himself in the mirror, twirled his mustaches, and departed on his mission.
Away he went across the field of flowers, through the courtyard, up the steep street, straight into the kitchen where his pretty sister sat eating artichokes and bread while the old woman twirled her distaff in the sun.
Johnnie twirled his moustache as he followed the nondescript sexless figure which flitted down the dimly-lit panelled passage before him like some creature from a masque.
The Bishop was outside all this, impatient of it, indeed; but even while the groom of the bodytwirled his moustache with an almost mechanical gesture of disgust and misliking, he felt the power of the man.
Wogan turned about on the instant, cocked his hat on the back of his head, took his chin out of his cravat, twirled his cane, whistled a tune and sauntered past the Captain, looking him over as if he were so much dirt.
The Captain stopped: Wogan felt his heart jump into his throat, whistled a bit louder, andtwirled his cane a trifle ferociously.
Round and round he was twirled till he was so dizzy he thought he must perish.
He stood on the floor underneath the little Red Hen and twirled round in a circle after his own tail.
The husband mused and twirled his penknife between a finger and thumb.
She looked at the button of his coat, which she twirled in her fingers.
The wool, after being carded, is spun with a spindle resembling a boy's top, the stem being about sixteen inches long and the lower point made to revolve in an earthen bowl by being twirledrapidly between the forefinger and thumb.
The hard piece is pointed and is twirled on the softer piece, with a steady downward pressure until sparks appear.
A thread is attached to the spindle just above the wheel, and it is thentwirled rapidly between the thumb and forefinger.
He twirled his stick violently in his hand, hitting at the rusty bramble branches and gorse bushes that bordered the Common as if they were his enemies.
He would not even have twirled his stick and cut down the brambles but in a momentary fit of forgetfulness.
Miss Riordon twirledthe white garment in her hand.
Then, in solid green sheets, it leaped up over the bulwarks, and for a moment the long flush deck was a boiling cauldron with a bloody scum, in which twirled and twisted dead men and living, and fragments of the ship and rigging.
For, you see, in all our doings hitherto, she had always looked up to me as leader, even when she twirled my boyish strength about her finger and made me do her will.
Do you remember the last game he twirledagainst you in Chicago?
He went to his safe, twirled the combination, and came back to me with a package.
He flung the portfolio into the inner compartment, closed both doors, and twirled the combination-knob.
Then he went to the safe and twirled the knob and watched the indicator find the four numbers which were the "open sesame" to the burglar and fire-proof door.
She twirled about him in a circle, like a gay little figurine.
Many a blond has twirled his thumbs around here for weeks for the same reason.
Still, neither moved; Cynthia idly twirled her muff; Jacqueline, her slender hands clasped behind her, stood gazing silently at the floor.
Cairns bit his lip and nervouslytwirled his walking stick.
The official twirled his mustache with an air of incredulity.
A serpent's coiling was not more swift than the movement of her dazzling, glittering form, which twirled and turned and bent, while the twinkling rapidity of her steps was faster than the eye could follow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twirled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
