Sample sentences for MAELSTROM

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Definition

a powerful whirlpool; or any wildly turbulent situation

Her comment placed her in the center of a maelstrom of criticism.

maelstrom = a powerful whirlpool; or any wildly turbulent situation

must be careful when navigating past the maelstrom
whirling round the maelstrom in my mind
A hovercar passed overhead, blowing a maelstrom of dust and loose wood chips into her eyes.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

maelstrom = a powerful whirlpool

Empty and closed like my sister, genetically locked in a maelstrom of meaningless apologies.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

maelstrom = powerful whirlpool

Submerged in the maelstrom, he knew neither who nor where he was.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
And as the pattern is erased, each particle discharges its portion of energy, turning the entire body into a shuddering maelstrom of dissociation.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
Light, blinding, heat churning, and the wind that whirled it all into a maelstrom.
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
Now as he rounded the corner and left their sight, the camerlegno felt a maelstrom of emotions like nothing he thought possible in human experience.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
These people were in shelters asleep instead of in these homes, which were now being crushed under a maelstrom of flying concrete and rebar.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Soon they were in the eye of a maelstrom.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
Thirteen mushroom clouds formed, rising ever higher toward the churning maelstrom above.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
The maelstrom above gathered mass and energy, assuming enormous proportions until it seemed a colossus, capable of swallowing the world.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
Got it. screamed BB, and suddenly there was a sound louder and larger than the maelstrom of noise surrounding and consuming us.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
The hunger for voyages, the hunger that haunts Americans, who are a nomad race, was halfassuaged here in this maelstrom of the war.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
She'd been unlucky enough to stop in that morning en route from the beach house, walking right into this maelstrom.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
By the time his vision had settled, the dwarf had disappeared into a maelstrom of churning muck.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
Suddenly the Ichthyosaurus and the Plesiosaurus disappeared beneath the waves, leaving behind them a maelstrom in the midst of the sea.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Dust and dirt poured out of the mine, and Lou coughed and gagged in this maelstrom.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
She was brash and buoyant, bobbing like a brightly colored cork in the maelstrom, unsinkable and unafraid.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

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