EDDY in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for EDDY, such as:

1. The water eddied around in a whirlpool.
2. Rare white flakes ever and again came eddying down.
3. There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.
4. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present.
5. The water in the tide pool was still, except for an occasional eddy.

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 Meanings and Examples of EDDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eddy
 n.  swirling current of water, air; flow in circular current
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Scattered swimmers appear in the vast eddy, armour of men, timbers and Trojan treasure amid the water.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  And with these words he drew nigh the wave, and caught up water from its brimming eddy, making many prayers to the gods and burdening the air with vows.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
3  Thus Juno pleaded; and all the heavenly people murmured in diverse consent; even as rising gusts murmur when caught in the forests, and eddy in blind moanings, betraying to sailors the gale's approach.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
4  That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
5  There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
6  The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
7  This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
8  There was an eddy in the mass of human bodies, and the woman with helmeted head and tawny cheeks rushed out to the very brink of the stream.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
9  The turbid water, swollen by the heavy rain, was rushing rapidly on below; and all other sounds were lost in the noise of its plashing and eddying against the green and slimy piles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
11  Rare white flakes ever and again came eddying down.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
12  As the darkness thickened, the eddying flakes grew more abundant, dancing before my eyes; and the cold of the air more intense.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
13  Even with these words, turning his spear, he struck the side of the hollow hill, and the winds, as in banded array, pour where passage is given them, and cover earth with eddying blasts.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
14  The house is filled with hum of voices eddying through the spacious chambers; lit lamps hang down by golden chainwork, and flaming tapers expel the night.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
15  The eddying dust rolls up thick and black towards the walls, and on the watch-towers mothers beat their breasts and the cries of women rise up to heaven.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  The water in the tide pool was still, except for an occasional eddy.
2  This pleasure consisted in prospect of noble summits girdling a great hill-hollow, rich in verdure and shadow; in a bright beck, full of dark stones and sparkling eddies.
3  The water eddied around in a whirlpool.