How to Use vortex in a Sentence

vortex

noun
  • Half of it is flushed down the toilet, down the vortex!
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The stronger the polar vortex, the milder the USA's winter is.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The three of us stood there for a minute and then got swept into the vortex of the crowd.
    — Carole Radziwill, Town & Country, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The stronger the polar vortex, the milder our winter is.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2021
  • The next step is ours to take to avoid the spiraling vortex.
    — Eric Solis, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The wall cloud is a lowering of the cloud base that will lead to the vortex, or spinning of air.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • It’s like [the] whole of the outside world is going through some sort of weird vortex.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Two side-by-side structures of the same height, for instance, form a vortex that runs up the side of one and down the other.
    — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
  • This vortex of waves concentrates the floating trash pieces in an area twice the size of Texas.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
  • The world, by contrast, has many shapes, vectors, and vortices.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • But even those with a plan were not immune to the impacts of the financial vortex.
    — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Water waves that come too close to the drain are inescapably sucked into the vortex.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The polar vortex is a zone of cold air that normally spins like a top high above the North Pole.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The ozone hole is related to the Antarctic polar vortex, a band of swirling cold air that moves around the Earth.
    — Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Next door to the Kimmel studios is a swirling vortex of souvenir malarkey.
    — Vulture, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Taylor-Joy’s Sandie is opaque, but in the right way: the sacrificial fetish in a vortex of fear.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Roofs had been ripped off and their remains were swirling in the vortex, along with other debris.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Earth was an immense aether vortex, circling around the sun.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Within seconds, the bombardment was over, and the vortex was gone.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Surface only after you’ve cleared the vortex near the dam.
    — Rob Goodier, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2021
  • The polar vortex is an area of low air pressure that constantly swirls around the north and south poles.
    — Kyla Mandel, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Unless, that is, Okudah gets caught in a draft-night vortex and begins to drop.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Part of this link involves the polar vortex, a swirling low-pressure center at the North and South poles.
    — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2019
  • And right in the middle of the map is the biggest change of all: a floating island, held aloft over Loot Lake and a twisting vortex.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2018
  • And even more mystifying is the way the blameless are dragged into the vortex.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Now stretched, the polar vortex can then shift the jet stream even farther south than just the blocking high could do on its own.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Boom’s planes have the same angled, pointy nose, which shapes the air into a low-pressure vortex ideal for the wings, but the nose stays in place.
    — Ashlee Vance, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The winter-white style proved a cozy option for the polar vortex in Manhattan right down to the plushy belt.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2019
  • Then in 2014 the polar vortex struck, and the islands' ice caves took over social media.
    — Chelsey Lewis, jsonline.com, 30 July 2020
  • It’s been a long, cold winter in certain corners of the country, but finally the first hints of spring have arrived as wisps of warm air slowly displace the polar vortex that has long overstayed its welcome.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025

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