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How to use vortex in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun, verb

Vortex means a whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. Example: “Vortex rings are rarely noticed unless the motion is revealed by suspended particles, as in smoke rings.”

Examples of vortex by meaning

nounA whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

  • An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex.2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the...

nounAnything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

  • Montreal in the summer is a vortex of decadent food, 24-ounce cocktails and carefree people.2014 May 30, Will Butler, “The Mark of Cane”, in The New York Times Magazine

nounA group of vultures or buzzards.

  • But when we reach the vortex of vultures, there he is.2002, Deborah Copaken, Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War, Random House Publishing Group, page 143
  • a vortex of vultures converges from all directions to compete viciously at the carcass2014, Bernd Heinrich, Ravens in Winter, Simon & Schuster, page 44
  • On Pincushion, the slow vortex of vultures guides me back to earlier vultures circling a blown-out tire on Interstate 5 somewhere north of Eugene, Oregon.2019, Matt Rader, Visual Inspection, Harbour Publishing Company Limited

More sentences with vortex

  • Vortex rings are rarely noticed unless the motion is revealed by suspended particles, as in smoke rings.From the entry vortex ring
  • The Bermuda Triangle is the best-known vile vortex.From the entry vile vortex
  • A smoke ring persists for a surprisingly long time, illustrating the slow rate at which viscosity dissipates the energy of a vortex.From the entry smoke ring
  • A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.From the entry whirlpool
  • Christiaan Huygens came to doubt the vortex theory “which formerly appeared very likely” to him.2021, Stathis Psillos, “From the Evidence of History to the History of Evidence: Descartes, Newton, and Beyond”, in Timothy D. Lyons…. From the entry vortex theory
  • As it warms up, expect everything to bloom at once, creating what allergists call a pollen vortex.2018 April 22, “Local allergist says pollen vortex is on the way due to weather”, in WSBT-TV, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024. From the entry allergist
  • Furthermore, deep in the Thomas-Fermi regime, we investigate the particle-like behavior of vortex rings and hopfions..2015, R.N. Bisset, Wenlong Wang, C. Ticknor, R. Carretero-Gonzalez, D.J. Frantzeskakis, L.A. Collins, P.G. Kevrekidis, “Robust Vortex…. From the entry hopfions
  • Once inside the side-channel, sediment was swept to the left hand side of the channel by the vortex.2016, George Constantinescu, Marcelo Garcia, Dan Hanes, River Flow 2016, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry side-channel
  • Because of this transfer, an initially spin-polarized dipolar condensate can dynamically generate vortices in a process resembling the Einstein–de Haas effect.2013, Makoto Tsubota, Kenichi Kasamatsu, Michikazu Kobayashi, “Quantized vortices in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein…. From the entry Einstein–de Haas effect
  • Not simply a monstrous and spectacular eyesore, it was a place of immense power, a vortex sucking everything into itself.2005, Maria M. Tumarkin, Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy. From the entry traumascape
  • Still, it cannot be denied that the fortunes of vortex theory eclipsed radically with the publication of Newton’s Principia.2000, Stephen Gaukroger, “The foundational role of hydrostatics and statics in Descartes’ natural philosophy”, in Stephen Gaukroger, John…. From the entry vortex theory
  • He raised his arms in supplication even as the cloak's hood blew back and his hair cycloned—like he was standing in a vortex.2021, Wayne Kyle Spitzer, The Lost Country, page 17. From the entry cyclone
  • Despite a rough beginning, this season might not continue to be so brutal, and the pollen vortex could soon become a distant memory.2021 March 26, Jeffrey Kopman, “What Is a Pollen Vortex?”, in The Weather Channel, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024. From the entry allergist
  • One culprit: the polar vortex, a giant mass of cold air normally contained above the North Pole by strong bands of circulating winds.2019 January 22, Richard A. Oppel Jr, “Had Enough of Snow? Try Frost Quakes, Waterspouts and Bitter Cold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry polar vortex
  • In recent weeks, the vortex has broken apart, with one block of cold air escaping into Canada and the United States, and another into Europe.2019 January 22, Richard A. Oppel Jr, “Had Enough of Snow? Try Frost Quakes, Waterspouts and Bitter Cold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry polar vortex
  • The temperature dependence of vortex satellite NMR signal frequency is found to be slower below the temperature of transition to the axipolar state..2015, V.P.Mineev, “NMR properties of polar phase of superfluid He-3 in anisotropic aerogel under rotation”, in arXiv. From the entry axipolar
  • The vortex trail will spring from the upstream edge of a flat bottomed gate, causing pressure pulsations at the bottom of the gate.2001, Jack Lewin, Hydraulic Gates and Valves, 2nd edition, Thomas Telford Publishing, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry flat bottomed
  • The function of the positive vortex advection in front of trough and vortex developping causes the developping cyclone connected with upper-air trough and vortex.1998, Qian Fang, “Analysis and Forecasting of the Jianghuai Cyclone”, in Johnny C. L. Chan, Jin Tong Wang, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd…. From the entry developping
  • Anything that splits the breeze, from your finger to a tree or a building, will cause an invisible vortex street to spread behind it.1994, Michael S. Schneider, A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, page 160. From the entry split the breeze
  • He felt doubtful about the existence of a free vortex , and the effect of a pressure difference, due to it, upon the jet.1934, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Proceedings, volume 128, London: […] [T]he Institution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 155. From the entry squish
  • If the constant cold weren’t enough, a brutal winter has many speculating that the polar vortex will be replaced by a “pollen vortex,” leaving allergy sufferers sniffling and miserable.2014 April 17, “Now a 'Pollen Vortex'? Wild Weather May Mean Allergy Nightmare”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024. From the entry pollen vortex
  • The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center.1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices. From the entry fountain
  • But the circumvolutionary motion of a planetary vortex, in like manner, effects the rotary motion of the planet and the orbital motion of its respective satellites.1920, John Martin Russell, Solar empyrean; or, Cosmos and the mysteries expounded, page 47. From the entry circumvolutionary
  • Architecture can contribute here, in the evocative potentials of its atmospheres – or its dromospheres – offering vectors which project the image of a vortex for reflective measurement of acceleration.2011, John Armitage, Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry dromosphere
  • The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).2006, M. Eto et al., “Solitons in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories”, in Particles, Strings and Cosmology, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry simple

Meaning of vortex

  1. noun A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
  2. noun Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
  3. noun Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

Full definition of vortex

Questions about vortex in a sentence

How do you use vortex in a sentence?
Vortex is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Vortex rings are rarely noticed unless the motion is revealed by suspended particles, as in smoke rings.”
What is a short sentence with vortex?
“An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex.”
What does vortex mean?
Vortex means a whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

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