Sample Sentences for
maelstrom
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    A hovercar passed overhead, blowing a maelstrom of dust and loose wood chips into her eyes.  (source)
    maelstrom = a powerful whirlpool
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    Empty and closed like my sister, genetically locked in a maelstrom of meaningless apologies.  (source)
    maelstrom = powerful whirlpool
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    But she could feel them sinking deeper into the maelstrom.†  (source)
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    In the past half year, the supposedly unoccupied house had played host to a maelstrom of humanity.†  (source)
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    Five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of unreason and spewed up a payment.†  (source)
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    Soon they were in the eye of a maelstrom.†  (source)
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    It was like a gigantic rock in the flood, creating maelstroms in the current around it.†  (source)
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    The maelstrom inside the Portal was almost a relief.†  (source)
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    in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts†  (source)
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    When we'd resumed an even keel, we squinted into the maelstrom and screamed our friends' names.†  (source)
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    And at the center of this maelstrom was the Countess Rostov's dining room with its two tables for twenty standing side by side.†  (source)
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    It's not like anyone has firsthand experience, and scientists can't decide if you would spend weeks floating past the event horizon before being torn apart or soar into a kind of maelstrom of particles and be burned alive.†  (source)
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    Scanning below me, I could see a maelstrom of parachutes all circling the four gray boats bobbing on the ocean below.†  (source)
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