A bully gave Tom a swirly.

Any attempt at recovering the bodies was absolutely hopeless, and there, deep down in that dreadful caldron of swirling water and seething foam, will lie for all time the most dangerous criminal and the foremost champion of the law of their generation.

Hurricane Hector, swirling harmlessly in the Pacific about 1,700 miles (2,760 km) east of the Big Island, was expected to grow into a major hurricane Saturday, meaning that its maximum sustained winds would reach at least 111 mph (179 km per hour).

The dark clouds and swirling wind indicated that a storm was imminent.

The swirling motion of eddies in the ocean cause nutrients that are normally found in colder, deeper waters to come to the surface.

The boy drew a swirl of colors, he said it represents the entrance to the world of dreams.

Dust Devils may look like tornadoes, but dust devils are not formed by thunderstorms and do not drop from the sky. Dust devils are caused by swirling winds that rise with the warm air found over the ground.

When a cartoon bumps his head, there are all those things swirling around his head.

The cat told the puppy a bedtime story with a series of trills, describing a world of swirling odors and wonderment.

No flowers grew there, no seaweed, only the bare gray sands, stretched toward the whirlpools, which like rushing millwheels swirled round, dragging everything that came within reach down to the depths.