How to Use vortex in a Sentence

vortex

noun

• Half of it is flushed down the toilet, down the vortex!
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022
• The stronger the polar vortex, the milder the USA's winter is.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
• The three of us stood there for a minute and then got swept into the vortex of the crowd.
  — Carole Radziwill, Town & Country, 22 Dec. 2020
• The stronger the polar vortex, the milder our winter is.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2021
• The next step is ours to take to avoid the spiraling vortex.
  — Eric Solis, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
• Harper, a six-time All-Star at 25, is caught in the vortex.
  — Ben Walker, The Seattle Times, 16 July 2018
• The wall cloud is a lowering of the cloud base that will lead to the vortex, or spinning of air.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• It’s like [the] whole of the outside world is going through some sort of weird vortex.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
• The last thing any of us needs is a reason to tilt into a vortex of fury.
  — NBC News, 12 Mar. 2018
• The sub-vortex fluctuates in width and has winds up to 200 mph in speed.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2018
• Two side-by-side structures of the same height, for instance, form a vortex that runs up the side of one and down the other.
  — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
• This vortex of waves concentrates the floating trash pieces in an area twice the size of Texas.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• Experts say the polar vortex will play a role in next week's cold snap.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
• The world, by contrast, has many shapes, vectors, and vortices.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• But even those with a plan were not immune to the impacts of the financial vortex.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Water waves that come too close to the drain are inescapably sucked into the vortex.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
• The polar vortex is a zone of cold air that normally spins like a top high above the North Pole.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
• Think of the polar vortex as a belt of very strong winds in the upper level of the atmosphere.
  — Brandon Miller, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• The ozone hole is related to the Antarctic polar vortex, a band of swirling cold air that moves around the Earth.
  — Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• Next door to the Kimmel studios is a swirling vortex of souvenir malarkey.
  — Vulture, 28 Jan. 2022
• But Clevelanders never know this time of year what might be just a vortex away.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Near the end of the tour are a slew of attractions meant to trick the eye including a walkway through a glow-.in-the-dark vortex or sorts.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• Taylor-Joy’s Sandie is opaque, but in the right way: the sacrificial fetish in a vortex of fear.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• Roofs had been ripped off and their remains were swirling in the vortex, along with other debris.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Earth was an immense aether vortex, circling around the sun.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• Within seconds, the bombardment was over, and the vortex was gone.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
• Surface only after you’ve cleared the vortex near the dam.
  — Rob Goodier, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2021
• The polar vortex is an area of low air pressure that constantly swirls around the north and south poles.
  — Kyla Mandel, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• The study finds that flamingos' webbed toes create a pair of vortices that push food toward their bills.
  — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 16 May 2025
• The animation in the video draws one’s consciousness in like a vortex, and the three sweets that make up the name are suggestive of some sort of code word.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 June 2025