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- noun Plural form of
whirlpool .
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Examples
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I misunderstood the speed of the first fish and they overtook me before I could present my fly and flushed from the boat in whirlpools of turbulence.
My Tarpon Addiction 2005
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The trout are so abundant that they swarm in whirlpools.
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The whirlpools were the most perfect specimens I ever saw.
The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894
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There are cold whirlpools, which is often for treatment of single parts of the body, and warm whirlpools, for full body therapy.
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"These vortices are literally little 'whirlpools' of electrical current," Huse explained.
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"These vortices are literally little 'whirlpools' of electrical current," Huse explained.
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Instead of good airflow, you get eddies and "whirlpools" where the cooling is less than ideal.
DailyTech News Feed 2009
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Instead of good airflow, you get eddies and "whirlpools" where the cooling is less than ideal.
DailyTech News Feed 2009
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Conflicting currents tore about in all directions, colliding, forming whirlpools, sucks, and boils, and shooting up spitefully into hollow waves which fell aboard as often from leeward as from windward.
DEMETRIOS CONTOS 2010
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As each distinctly different, 10 foot long sample of her washi art after another is rolled out on ceiling tracks, the paper reveals its beauty: thin fibers creating delicate swirls around tiny bits of mulberry bark, long coarse strips of bark floating dramatically in what looks like churning whirlpools.
Steve Beimel: Meetings With Remarkable People in Japan: Eriko Horiki -- Pioneer on the Washi Frontier Steve Beimel 2011
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