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
  • Harper, a six-time All-Star at 25, is caught in the vortex.
    — Ben Walker, The Seattle Times, 16 July 2018
  • 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
  • The last thing any of us needs is a reason to tilt into a vortex of fury.
    — NBC News, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The sub-vortex fluctuates in width and has winds up to 200 mph in speed.
    — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Think of the polar vortex as a belt of very strong winds in the upper level of the atmosphere.
    — Brandon Miller, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Near the end of the tour are a slew of attractions meant to trick the eye including a walkway through a glow-.in-the-dark vortex or sorts.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • 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
  • To create a tornado-like vortex, a bird would retract its head in a short burst of speed at nearly 16 inches per second.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
  • Most immersion blenders rely on the speed of spinning blades to suck ingredients up into a high-speed vortex, but not this immersion blender.
    — Emily Farris, Bon Appétit, 6 Mar. 2025

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