Antonyms for whirlingwhirling

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1. gyration, whirlingnoun

   the act of rotating in a circle or spiral

   Synonyms:
   revolution, rotation, gyration

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1. whirlingadjective

   Synonyms:
   spinning, rotating, vertiginous, gyratory

2. whirlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   spinning, rotation, gyration, turbination, pirouette

How to use whirling in a sentence?

1. Dante Alighieri:

   There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

2. Kabbalah:

   Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   pound for pound, the best one of the bunch, a fighter, scratcher, pit bull, she can nail ‘em to the floor in one second flat, her body’s beautiful, but her mind’s a work of art, whirling madly, twisting and turning, she’s a REAL woman and she won’t let you forget it

4. Bridget Malcolm:

   I cannot tell you how many times I went to bed with my head whirling — trying to get me to latch onto how much I ate at dinner, or during the day, or trying to convince myself to change my diet, start training hard again, start tracking my size, just start doing more, it felt like two steps forward, one and three quarters step back.

5. Edward Hoagland:

   True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

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