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Definition

to spin or spiral

or:

to move in a dance-like way that is sexually suggestive

For Louie, within a few seconds, the porch started gyrating.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

gyrating = spinning

But with the plane gyrating down nose first and the escape passage narrow, perhaps Mitchell couldn't get out.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken - adapted for young adults

gyrating = spinning or spiraling

The frightening thing, he reflected for the ten thousandth time as he forced his shoulders painfully backward (with hands on hips, they were gyrating their bodies from the waist, an exercise that was supposed to be good for the back muscles) — the frightening thing was that it might all be true.
George Orwell -- 1984

gyrating = rotating in a dance-like way

Louie hung there, gyrating in the water and flailing his arms and legs, as the sharks snapped at him and the bullets came down.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

gyrating = spinning

But with the plane gyrating down nose first and the escape passage narrow, perhaps the navigator couldn't pull himself out.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

gyrating = spinning or spiraling

ALL DAY, UNDER A DARK, GYRATING SKY, LOUIE AND PHIL rode the swells, straining their eyes westward and feeling a weary thrill as the bump on the horizon peeked into view.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

gyrating = spinning

Within a few seconds, the porch started gyrating around Louie.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken - adapted for young adults
All day, under a gyrating sky, Louie and Phil rode the swells, feeling a weary thrill as the island peeked into view.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken - adapted for young adults
Jack broke out of his gyration and stood facing Ralph.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

gyration = spinning or spiraling scrambling movements

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Several of the remaining glass columns crack, causing the monstrous occupants to gyrate in agitation.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
The plain surged with figures in combat — Sardaukar and leaping gyrating robed men who seemed to come down out of the storm.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
He stopped as he descried a great disk of foam the size of an island, gyrating from north to east.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
He had been caught in a vortex and was being whirled on with a velocity of advance and gyration that made him giddy and sick.
Ambrose Bierce -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

He spent his nights playing piano and sax for couples who glided and gyrated across the city's polished floors.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
They danced and gyrated like tortured savages.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
Everything that was Stevie Rae was gone—from the cowboy boot lamp and the Kenny Chesney poster, to the gyrating Elvis clock.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
Her body was plump, far from perfect, and she was gyrating in rhythm to the chanting—making love to Sophie's grandfather.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
The next girl clomped down the runway in torn jeans and combat boots, tossing her hair and gyrating suggestively, grinning out at us.
Sarah Dessen -- That Summer
I may have lay in the mud for minutes or hours while my brain slowly gyrated inside my skull.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
The chicken's neck gyrates and it splatters the ground and Sho's face and shirt with its dripping blood.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

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