Eddying

"Eddying" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Far off is seen, above the billowy mere, / Trinacrian AEtna, and the distant roar / of ocean and the beaten rocks we hear, / and the loud burst of breakers on the shore; / high from the shallows leap the surges hoar, / and surf and sand mix eddying.

They walked hand in hand to the bridge, leant over the parapet, and watched the river eddying below.

If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale[…]

At last, more from the natural eddying of the crowd than by his own effort, he found himself flung out into the open.

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