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How to use whorl in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun, verb

Whorl means each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral. Example: “A French design, the whorl foot was first seen on furniture in the mid-18th century.”

Examples of whorl by meaning

verbTo form a pattern of concentric circles.

  • “Waves Against the Sand,” to music by Martinu, which opened the program, filled the stage space with whorling patterns of dancers surging with the gentle but ceaseless momentum of the sea.2008 February 12, Jennifer Dunning, “Modern Style, Old-Fashioned Virtues”, in New York Times

More sentences with whorl

  • A French design, the whorl foot was first seen on furniture in the mid-18th century.From the entry whorl foot
  • Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.From the entry loop
  • I stroke the whorl of fur between his ears, one sticky-uppy and one floppy.2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN. From the entry sticky-uppy
  • His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.2008 January 1, Richard Eder, “A Writer, a Muse, Their Laundry”, in New York Times. From the entry counterthought
  • Small planospiral criocones with partially coiled whorls (microconchs) or completely uncoiled (macroconchs).2002, K. Histon, Albert Daurer, Cephalopods, present and past. From the entry criocone
  • Very open crioconic whorls, which gradually pass into a long straight shaft.1997, Nico M. M. Janssen, Mikhail Vladimirovich Kakabadze, Ph. J. Hoedemaeker, Mediterranean Neocomian belemnites. From the entry crioconic
  • Protoconch proportionally large, consisting of about 4" smooth whorls that become increasingly roundsided with increased size.1960, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. From the entry roundsided
  • Specimens minute, high-spired, loxonematoid shells with slightly sinuate transverse costae on ephebic whorls.1953, Journal of Paleontology, volume 27, page 698. From the entry loxonematoid
  • The upper whorls are plane, and tricingulate.2024 July 1, Wikipedia contributors, “Calliostoma fonki”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry tricingulate
  • Teleoconch: The postlarval, postmetamorphic, or postnuclear whorls of the shell.2014, Alan J. Kohn, "Conus" of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean, page 48. From the entry teleoconch
  • Because Conus shells continue to grow throughout life, the number of teleoconch whorls varies considerably within as well as among species.2014, Alan J. Kohn, "Conus" of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean, page 48. From the entry teleoconch
  • There's a zizzy feeling, prickles in my fingers and toes and a sudden blackness with whorls of light.1998, Myra Schneider, John Killick, Writing for self-discovery. From the entry zizzy
  • The last whorl bends away from crioconic spiral and (without becoming straight) is gradually bent like a hook.1988, Jost Wiedmann, Jürgen Kullmann, Cephalopods Present and Past: O.H. Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985. From the entry crioconic
  • O. davisense can be distinguished because the flexious ribs are about half as numerous per whorl as those of O. puzosiforme.1965, David Leigh Clark, Heteromorph Ammonoids from the Albian and Cenomanian of Texas and Adjacent Areas, page 36. From the entry flexious
  • The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, “A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History…. From the entry malleate
  • The primary constriction is followed by a sudden change from a retrochoanitic to prochoanitic septal neck in the first half of the second whorl.2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and…. From the entry prochoanitic
  • She had the weirdest urge to reach up and brush back the whorl of Superman-esque hair that had fallen over his brow.2015, Julie Ann Walker, Hell or High Water, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry Superman-esque
  • Egression of the umbilical suture line on the last whorl of an adult and complete speciment is one morphologic feature which is unambiguous evidence of maturity in ammonites.2012, Reinhart A. Gygi, Quantitative Geology of Late Jurassic Epicontinental Sediments in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland, page 66. From the entry egression
  • With a reticulate, fibrous skeleton of spongin spined by unique monaxonal spicules pointed at one end, blunt at other and bearing whorls of small spines along their length.1984, A Synoptic Classification of Living Organisms, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry monaxonal
  • Primary A increases in strength until about whorl 6 which is strongly tricingulate, but thereafter the rise of the secondary, r, followed by tertiaries, decreases its importance.1957, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin, numbers 26-30, page 36. From the entry tricingulate
  • This keel on the first half of the last whorl consists of oblique, protractive strong short ridges, which on the last half disappear and give place to rough corrugations.1943, United States National Museum, Bulletin - Issues 180-181, page 111. From the entry protractive
  • Out front was a clean dirt yard with every vestige of grass patiently uprooted and the ground scarred in deep whorls from the strike of Livvie’s broom.1943, Eudora Welty, “Livvie”, in The Wide Net and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., page 156. From the entry dirt yard
  • On the second whorl, which is definitely angulated at the periphery, the axials are strong and subnodulous at the angulation and remarkably weakened above, but apparently reach the upper suture.1969, Teiichi Kobayashi, editor, Geology and Palaeontology of Southeast Asia, volume 6, University of Tokyo Press, page 213. From the entry subnodulous

Meaning of whorl

  1. noun Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.
  2. noun A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
  3. noun A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

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Questions about whorl in a sentence

How do you use whorl in a sentence?
Whorl is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A French design, the whorl foot was first seen on furniture in the mid-18th century.”
What is a short sentence with whorl?
“The upper whorls are plane, and tricingulate.”
What does whorl mean?
Whorl means each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.

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