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whirlwind::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | windstorm |
| Has types | dust devil |
Examples of whirlwind
whirlwind
That call from the show set off a whirlwind of trying to get ready for the trip.
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When he belatedly entered the horse racing business, he did so like a whirlwind.
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This week's news takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East and South Asia.
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The past three years have been a whirlwind for the former Giles County standout.
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After a whirlwind romance, the two wed in India in a traditional Hindu ceremony.
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The trip was a whirlwind through Hartford and Mystic, Conn., and Plymouth, Mass.
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As the business shrunk, Myspace suffered from a whirlwind of management changes.
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Hayes returned to practice Saturday after a whirlwind of emotion over nine days.
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Troubling her too is an imbalance she detects in the whirlwind of press reports.
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- A more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth
- Whirlwind (Smerch) is a 1988 Soviet action film directed by Bako Sadykov. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
- A whirlwind is a weather phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow (current) gradients. Whirlwinds occur all over the world and in any season.
- Whirlwind is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales To Astonish #50 (Dec. 1963) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
- The Whirlwind computer was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is the first computer that operated in real time, used video displays for output, and the first that was not simply an electronic replacement of older mechanical systems. ...
- Whirlwind is a novel by James Clavell, first published in 1986. It forms part of The Asian Saga and is chronologically the last book in the series.
- Whirlwind is a steel roller coaster formerly located at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. It is a standard production model Vekoma Whirlwind double corkscrew roller coaster, featuring a lift hill, and a pair of corkscrews separated by a turn. Overall track length is . ...
- The WhirlWind is a roller coaster at Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York. It is where Quantum Loop stood until Winter 2004 when the WhirlWind was added.
- The Whirlwind is the third studio album by the band Transatlantic, released on 23 October 2009. It is available in three formats: a standard edition, a double disc edition and a deluxe edition with a 105 minute making-of DVD.
