Synonyms

1. vortex
2. maelstrom

Sentence Examples

1. Soon the water rushes out of the scupper-holes like a whale spouting, the vessel gives a last groan, spins round and round, and disappears, forming a vast whirlpool in the ocean, and then all is over, so that in five minutes nothing but the eye of God can see the vessel where she lies at the bottom of the sea.
2. Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin gave them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, ay, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the were-wolves themselves had come.
3. I picked up my pint, swirling the beer until it made a tiny amber whirlpool.
4. Through cracked glasses, he looked as the same water that had crashed onto him now swirled like a whirlpool, swallowing redness.
5. Lancinations of brilliant light blinded her, she was caught in a terrible whirlpool, and then she was on her feet again.
6. Maybe him and his likes, civil servants, were having a hard time caught in its whirlpool, suffering both in-creases and cutbacks but also, justly or unjustly, pub-lic derision.
7. The green mist spiralled lazily, growing in density, the centre of it swirling down the vortex of the whirlpool into the prostrate figure on the ground.
8. I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool if so my stay may be very interesting.
9. His head felt like it was caught in a whirlpool and his stomach fluttered they way it did when he leaned too far back in a chair.
10. With great difficulty I gained my feet, and looking dizzily around, was, at first, struck with the idea of our being among breakers so terrific, beyond the wildest imagination, was the whirlpool of mountainous and foaming ocean within which we were engulfed.