Sample Sentences forgyrategrouped by contextual meaning (auto-selected)
gyrate as in: the bird gyrated
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Jack broke out of his gyration and stood facing Ralph.
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gyration = spinning or spiraling scrambling movements
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For Louie, within a few seconds, the porch started gyrating. (source)gyrating = spinning
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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. (source)gyrating = rotating
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But at other times, she would gyrate and make grunting sounds and spasmodically sweep her books and pens to the floor.† (source)
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She abruptly locked into the beat, bobbing her head, gyrating her hips.† (source)
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I may have lay in the mud for minutes or hours while my brain slowly gyrated inside my skull.† (source)
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Sometimes, I preferred standing on the sides to observe the stream and tide of their motion, their gyrations, the fusion of feet and fingers with the fever from some dark, tribal, ancestral homeland.† (source)
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The advance guard which came down the street from the railroad station consisted of a number of Jeeps, being driven with a certain restraint, their gyration-prone wheels inactive on these old ways which offered nothing bumpier than a few cobblestones.† (source)standard suffix: 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.
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Several of the remaining glass columns crack, causing the monstrous occupants to gyrate in agitation.† (source)
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Lindsay gyrates with a ski pole between her legs, rocking back and forth.† (source)
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The still-gyrating rotors sliced through the wind, making a loud whistling noise.† (source)
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Slamming his fist down now and then, he failed to notice that his daughter's eyes were glazed, or that his daughter-in-law stood behind him for a few seconds, placed both her hands on her breasts, touched her tongue to her nose, closed her eyes, gyrated her pelvis, and moaned like a wolf.† (source)
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said Marilla, thoroughly worn out trying to follow the gyrations of Anne's thoughts.† (source)
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We recognized the drivers, spotted familiar faces in the windows, people we customarily saw sitting on lawn chairs behind the asylum's sparse hedges or walking in ever narrowing circles, with ever increasing speed, like spinning masses in a gyration device.† (source)
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