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How to pronounce twirl in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms birl, spin, whirl
Type of rotate, circumvolve
Derivation twirler
Type Words
Synonyms swirl, twiddle, whirl
Type of go around, revolve, rotate
Derivation twirler
Type Words
Synonyms kink, twist
Type of bend, crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication
Type Words
Synonyms spin, twist, twisting, whirl
Type of rotation, rotary motion
Has types logrolling, pirouette, birling

Examples of twirl

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For the third time in six seasons, Terrible Towels will twirl at the Super Bowl.
From the tennessean.com
Dust devils twirl across the desert as we hike past wind-sculpted stone hoodoos.
From the sfgate.com
Everyone should wear clothes that make them want to twirl every once in a while.
From the stltoday.com
Ceiling fans twirl overhead as they did in in Hemingway's day at the Floridita.
From the courier-journal.com
Boaters mostly anchored up and let spinners twirl and Kwikfish wobble below them.
From the sacbee.com
The men with the tall cone hats and long skirts that twirl around in a circle.
From the denverpost.com
Lift and twirl slightly to allow excess chocolate to fall back into the container.
From the kansas.com
Horses stay shockingly calm as women in flowing dresses twirl above them on wires.
From the denverpost.com
I rotate my cyber-self into a twirl and she looks pretty good from all angles.
From the express.co.uk
More examples
  • Kink: a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
  • Turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind"
  • Spin: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"
  • Whirl: cause to spin; "spin a coin"
  • In cryptography and number theory, TWIRL (The Weizmann Institute Relation Locator) is a hypothetical hardware device designed to speed up the sieving step of the general number field sieve integer factorization algorithm. ...
  • Cadbury Twirl is a snack that consists of two Flake-style chocolate fingers, with a smooth chocolate coating. It was made by Cadbury Ireland and then sold by Cadbury UK. The Twirl first appeared in the Irish market in the early 1970s. ...
  • Female Transformers are extraterrestrial robots in the Transformers universe that possess the outward appearance of humanoid females.
  • Twirling is any of several artforms, hobbies, or sport and recreational activities accomplished by spinning or rotating the twirled object either for exercise, or in a rhythmic, or otherwise artful manner. ...
  • A movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette; To perform a twirl; To rotate