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Definition

the shape of something rotating rapidly — such as a tornado
or: a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

They form a vortex from which no ship has ever been able to escape.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

In the stairwell, the floors and stairs below were a white-water river, a vortex of cascading waves.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
I hired a boat directly, and we put off to her; and getting through the little vortex of confusion of which she was the centre, went on board.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Surely, thought Jan, it must be a vortex of some kind-a smoke-ring already many kilometres across.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
His voice sounded like a backward recording—as if the words were being sucked into the vortex of his face rather than projected.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
If it was the last word I had to speak, against that vortex with my utmost powers I strove, and out of it I came.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Everything was the Blizzard, the Mindbender, Top Gun, the Vortex.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
It was never the same—a rumble, as if faint, distant thunder—a deep gurgle, as of water drawn into a vortex—a rolling, as of a stone in swift current.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
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
It was the heady race and plunge of the vortex.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Adam's irises were light blue with dark radial lines leading into the vortices of his pupils.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
Headless trunks were tossed out of the vortex to linger a moment on the surface and sink out of sight.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
When she looked up and outward, a vortex of light drove through and over the brown waves like a star in the water.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
BB screamed against datumplane static that rasped at my bones and we were whirling, tumbling, sucked into the vacuum like insects in an oceanic vortex.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
She felt like a vortex had opened up inside her head and was sucking away her thoughts and words.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
There is storm-music, and the fisherman drowns, sucked to the bottom of the sea in the vortex of the whirlpool.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
She clings to me as tightly as if I were keeping her from being sucked into a vortex.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
An aching lust to join them tormented both body and soul, and whoever lacked the strength to flee to solitude was drawn into the vortex, beyond all help.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
He relaxed, permitted himself to be drawn down into a vortex of associations and began sorting.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man

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