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Example sentences for "whirligig"

Lexicographically close words:
whipt; whir; whirl; whirle; whirled; whirligigs; whirling; whirlpool; whirlpools; whirls
  1. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head.

  2. At night some of the whirligig beetles, the shiny, bean-like creatures seen whirling in incessant circles in corners by the bank, make a quite audible and almost musical sound upon the water.

  3. If a group of whirligig beetles is disturbed, the whole party will dive like dabchicks, rising to the surface again when they feel the need for breathing-air again.

  4. Well, it's just that gravity is centripetal, you know, and the Whirligig is centrifugal.

  5. A very abundant but very small species, and one that makes a capital bait for fishes with small mouths, is the whirligig mullet (Querimana gyrans).

  6. About Key West and the neighboring keys the best bait is the little whirligig mullet (Querimana gyrans), which whirls on the surface in large schools, or cut bait or shrimps may be used to advantage.

  7. The little whirligig mullet, or spiny crawfish, or even cut-fish bait, are all good baits to use as occasion may demand.

  8. Slap from the bridge fell old Peachey, turning and twisting in the air like a penny whirligig that you can sell to the Amir.

  9. For each dead man Dravot pours a little milk on the ground and waves his arms like a whirligig and 'That's all right,' says he.

  10. He is older now (you and I may whisper it) and a trifle stooped in the shoulders yet in the whirligig of years a grave dignity has come to the conscientious second accountant of the Ulster bank, College Green branch.

  11. I would be capable of little gratitude if I refused, Princess," said he, wondering what new outlet the whirligig of events would provide.

  12. Hardly less bewildering than this turn of fortune's wheel was the whirligig that promoted a poor trooper of the Company to the position of accepted suitor for the hand of a royal maiden.

  13. HENRY "And thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges.

  14. Nothing had been altered since the time of Sir George's great grandfather; and the whirligig of time had just now made the old things precious.

  15. When this sober state of things had endured some time, there came a year that money was loose, and a speculative fever due in the whirligig of time.

  16. The Whirligig You can have some fun with the daffodil stalk, too, after taking off the flowers.

  17. This makes a whirligig of your stalk, and the flower will appear at the top as you see it in Fig.

  18. For each dead man Dravot pours a little milk on the ground and waves his arms like a whirligig and, ‘That’s all right,’ says he.

  19. How strangely "the whirligig of time brings in his revenges!

  20. And all the while the whirligig that looks after enlisted men saw to it that Trooper Busick added other colored bars to his service ribbons.

  21. They have also their quiet reaches, where whirligig beetles perform their marvelous gyrations, and bright-eyed polliwogs twirl their tails in early May.

  22. He searched for information on the beetle, and found there was a whole family of whirligig beetles.

  23. Henry Chatham's eyes wandered to the fish bowl, where the whirligig beetle had come to the top again and was describing intricate patterns among the water plants.

  24. But the whirligig beetle saw the hand coming, and, quicker than a wink, plunged under the water and scooted rapidly to the very bottom of the bowl.

  25. On Wednesday evening, he glanced at the fish bowl and noticed that the water beetle, the whirligig beetle, was missing.

  26. But when I was a boy we used to call them whirligig beetles.

  27. The whirligig of time does bring some things To set the very Muse of History muttering.

  28. And so you see, the whirligig of time has made another turn.

  29. You know a man in politics is always looking about for some place to which he can retire when the whirligig brings in another group of more popular patriots.


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