A thousand incoherent ideas swirled around my mind.
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Swirled
Synonyms for "swirled" (201 found)
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Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
No flowers grew there, no seaweed, only the bare gray sands, stretched toward the whirlpools, which like rushing millwheels swirled round, dragging everything that came within reach down to the depths.
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All in all, matter near a black hole can be spaghettified, super-heated, squeezed, pancaked, pulled apart, and swirled around all while time itself stretches in unusual ways.
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The leaves swirled in the autumn breeze.
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