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How to use whirl in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Whirl means to rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. Example: “The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.”

Examples of whirl by meaning

verbTo rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

  • The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
  • The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC

verbTo have a sensation of spinning or reeling.

  • My head is whirling after all that drink.

verbTo make something or someone whirl.

  • The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.

nounAn act of whirling.

  • She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.

nounA rapid series of events.

  • My life is one social whirl.

nounDizziness or giddiness.

  • My mind was in a whirl.

nounA brief experiment or trial.

  • OK, let's give it a whirl.

More sentences with whirl

  • If you've never tried a recumbent bicycle before, you're welcome to give it a whirl.From the entry give something a whirl
  • I don't know how to begin, but I'll give it a whirl, anyway.From the entry give something a whirl
  • Isaias drives through town, it is not in a motorcade with whirling sirens and sunglassed police officers.2007 October 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Calm Voice From Embattled Eritrea”, in New York Times. From the entry sunglassed
  • The centrifugal force of the whirling jumprope draws the ends together.2006, Cycle World Magazine, volume 45, number 1, page 1. From the entry jump rope
  • He slid along it pell-mell, breathless at the speed and the whirl of colors around him.2005, Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry moonrun
  • The swash of the whirling blades reminds me vaguely of the noise conifers make.2003, Alfred Wohlpart, The Trail Home: Along the Pacific Crest, page 55. From the entry swash
  • I ended up with the whirling pits, being sick in the bathroom for hours.2000, Alison Pressley, Changing Times: Being Young in Britain in the '60s, page 71. From the entry whirling pits
  • If you want to get hairs out of a carpet, you need a whirling brushbar of death.1999, Steve Wiseman, “Vacuum Cleaners”, in cam.misc (Usenet). From the entry brushbar
  • A whirling ice-maiden I dance and I swim and I fly with the wild flying insects.1995, Carmel Bird, The White Garden, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry snowchild
  • Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life. From the entry sain
  • He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.1977, Angela Carter, chapter 2, in The Passion of New Eve, London: Virago Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry virid
  • Faster and faster he whirled until he was like a spinning top.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, published 1984, page x. 136. From the entry widdershins
  • Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood.1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96. From the entry knife-coloured
  • My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80. From the entry flobber
  • It’s a wonderful, glitterful holiday whirl, in styles with that happy Sacony feeling.1957 December, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXXIV, number 12, page 137. From the entry glitterful
  • He escaped at last, dizzy from the maelstrom of conflicting emotions that had caught and whirled him.1922, Harry Leon Wilson, “‘Five Reels—500 Laughs’”, in Merton of the Movies, Garden City, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Page & Company…. From the entry maelstrom
  • I've just had a row with a telephone girl, a telephone girl, my brain's in a whirl.1915, W. David, J. Barnett, Hermann Darewski, “Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?”. From the entry telephone girl
  • The starter whirls for what seems like 15 seconds and then, Dracarys, the fire spitter behind your head starts howling.2022 April, Jonny Lieberman, “Attempt To Tame The Most Ferocious Pagani Yet”, in Motor Trend, page 37. From the entry dracarys
  • He whirls, pointing Mjolnir at my nose.2021, Kendall Grey, Fooled. From the entry twig and berries
  • She whirled back and looked straight at the custodian.2021 October 1, Kathryn Kuhlman, Jamie Buckingham, Daughter of Destiny: The Only Authorized Biography, Destiny Image Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry God love someone
  • The man's stetson whirled off his head.2014, J.R. Roberts, Gundown in Paradise, →ISBN. From the entry colt
  • The foamite snow could therefore look soft and fluffy, like a whirling storm, or as wild as a raging blizzard.2013, Kristi McKim, Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change, Routledge, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry foamite
  • Another attack swept them together before they clashed then whirled away again to the safety of two swordslengths.2005, Robert Carter, The Giants’ Dance (The Language of Stones; book two), HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 398. From the entry swordslength
  • Without Mind there are only meaningless electrons whirling in whateverness.1992, James Dillet Freeman, The hilltop heart: reflections of a practical mystic, page 33. From the entry whateverness
  • ARCHY whirls around and we see, from his P.O.V. that the voice belongs to LES McCANN, the stockman.1980, David Williamson, Gallipoli: Screenplay, Cinestore, page 23. From the entry p.o.v.
  • You take a firm grip on the crank, pull the choke wire and whirl the crank like the very devil.1947, The Railway Clerk, volume 46, page 298. From the entry cranker
  • I would be there with my iron steed, and on the pillion thereof would whirl her into fairyland.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry steed
  • It makes no difference if you fall on the whirl.1922, Robert Benchley, Love Conquers All. From the entry who cares
  • Meanwhile Darius had loosed his scythed cars, to whirl destruction into the ranks of the Companions and the hypaspists.1900, John Bagnell Bury, A History of Greece: To the Death of Alexander the Great, Cambridge University Press, page 777. From the entry hypaspist
  • A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry DJ
  • There were two men left by the rail and Hob whirled to take them; his sword swung up and hovered an instant before the downstrike.2017, Douglas Nicholas, Three Queens in Erin: A Novel, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry downstrike
  • Why would we want to stick around a giant, empty, superfantastic space in the middle of this whirling dervish of a town?2016, Portes, Andrea, The fall of butterflies, page 166. From the entry superfantastic

Meaning of whirl

  1. verb To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
  2. verb To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
  3. verb To make something or someone whirl.

Full definition of whirl

Questions about whirl in a sentence

How do you use whirl in a sentence?
Whirl is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.”
What is a short sentence with whirl?
“My life is one social whirl.”
What does whirl mean?
Whirl means to rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whirl (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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