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Example sentences for "whirls"

Lexicographically close words:
whirligig; whirligigs; whirling; whirlpool; whirlpools; whirlwind; whirlwinds; whirr; whirred; whirring
  1. The blower opens that ball, and whirls the whole round till the foot is formed.

  2. Then she was gone, and all about was only the whip of wings and the flashing whirls of light.

  3. One more of the young of this horrible species was liberated and went winging away into the dark, only the whirls of light in the atmosphere marking the beating of its wings.

  4. From his fingertips he saw whirls of violet light sweep out and away, as vortices might have been set in motion by a swimmer in a more liquid medium.

  5. Faster and faster, farther and farther whirls the cloud of spirits.

  6. Twixt woe and weal, a balm to heal our every wound they found, An outlet for each pool of strife, that whirls us round and round.

  7. She blows up her gills and angrily extends her fins, while a thick shower of sparkling gold and silver scales whirls through the water to the bottom.

  8. At the first moment she fancies herself attacked by some scaly enemy, and shakes herself and whirls round, snapping fiercely.

  9. He whirls on them sharps like a mountain lion.

  10. Meanwhile, like I states prior, Red Dog has its editor, who whirls loose a paper which he calls the Stingin' Lizard.

  11. Or what do you think of Cobus, the tumbler, who, throwing his feet forward, whirls himself quite round in the air before he lights on the ground?

  12. Speaking thus, at once she strongly seizes the fiery weapon, and with straining hand whirls it far upreared, and flings: the souls of the Ilian women are startled and their wits amazed.

  13. The individual whirls were jostling and fighting with, and even devouring, each other.

  14. Nightspore recollected the back rays of Starkness, and it flashed across him with the certainty of truth that the green sparks were the back rays, and the whirls the forward rays, of Muspel.

  15. Its fire had been abstracted, its cement was withdrawn, and, after being fouled and softened by the horrible sweetness of the host, it broke into individuals, which were the whirls of living will.

  16. And, surrounding these atoms of life and light, were far larger whirls of white light that gyrated hither and thither, carrying the green corpuscles with them wherever they desired.

  17. There's a steadiness in the thought of such a life among one's kind which has attractions for a man who has spent years in a maelstrom, snatching at what whirls among the eddies of it.

  18. Me let him lift and dash to gloom Of nether hell, in whirls of doom!

  19. The dust whirls up, and from their panting steeds White foamy flakes like snow bedew the plain.

  20. Some are lost in that medley of the living which whirls continually under the scourge of necessity, and others in that resting-place of the dead, who sleep under the hand of God!

  21. As the coach whirls through the night away from the friendly gates of home, many a plan does the young man cast in his mind of future life and conduct, prudence, and peradventure success and fame.

  22. The other was the star-like radiance of joy which had swept down the ballroom in Donal's arms with dancing whirls and swayings and pretty swoops.

  23. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses.

  24. Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.

  25. Below the cataract where the lumbermen worked, the broad, brown current moved slowly along with sluggish whirls and eddies; but the raft was moored by chains to the shore, so that it was in no danger of getting adrift.

  26. Then for the first time Ralph had an opportunity to look behind him, and he saw two moving whirls of snow darting downward, not far from his own track.

  27. My head whirls when I remember my stumbling and halting movement through that passage of dread, shivering with fear that the next step might dash me into an unfathomable pit.

  28. It grips the attention in the first paragraph, and whirls one irresistibly along through all the stirring incidents of its skillfully devised plot, giving one not an instant's rest until the splendid dramatic climax gives sudden relief.

  29. It whirls with excitement and strange adventure.

  30. One, whose garment was exceedingly short, no sooner saw us than she commenced a fjeld dance, full of astonishing leaps and whirls to the great diversion of the other hands.

  31. As it whirls around, a tool is held against it wherever it is to be made smaller, and very soon the coffeepot is in shape.

  32. It is so made that as it slips down the current of oil, it whirls around and in so doing its nose of sharp blades scrapes the pipes clean.

  33. The foundation of life, as it dashes into these obstacles, splashes and foams over in laughter and tears, and dances and whirls through eddies from which one cannot get a definite idea of its course.

  34. And my whole being eddied round and round my troubled heart, creating a vortex within itself, in the whirls of which its consciousness was confined.

  35. Every time the string is relaxed the disc revolves, in consequence of the impetus it has acquired from the previous pull; and every time the string is tightened, it whirls round in an opposite direction, as the double string is then untwisted.


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