GYRATION in a Sentence

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Example sentences for GYRATION, such as:

1. The young people gyrated on the dance floor.
2. The dancers gyrated wildly to the beat of the music.
3. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be happy.
4. A center of actual rotation as well as rotational symmetry may be called gyration center.
5. Unlike most parents, who thought his gyrations obscene, Mother loved Elvis, too, maybe even more than I did.

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 Meanings and Examples of GYRATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gyration
 n.  act of rotating in a circle or spiral
Classic Sentence:
1  In front of this was the grand central dance of fifteen or twenty couples, flanked by minor dances of inferior individuals whose gyrations were not always in strict keeping with the tune.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
2  I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be happy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Example Sentence:
1  A center of actual rotation as well as rotational symmetry may be called gyration center.
2  Unlike most parents, who thought his gyrations obscene, Mother loved Elvis, too, maybe even more than I did.
3  The dancers gyrated wildly to the beat of the music.
4  The young people gyrated on the dance floor.
5  When he stood for a solo, he gyrated and played with a blaring tone, more like hard-core rock and roll than jazz or swing.