How to Use whorl in a Sentence

whorl

noun

• Just cut the head, when harvesting, just above the bottom whorl of leaves.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
• The snail's shell has seven to nine whorls (spirals) when it is fully grown.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• Flowers are built from parts named sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, which are arranged in whorls.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2023
• From the fish tanks come the Dungeness crabs and whorls of eel, the flesh fluffy and preening from the heat of the wok.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
• The fingerprint-like whorls of Daedalia Planum are on the list of unknowns.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• My infant son grabbed a branch now and then, and the dog slept under the last whorl of branches, near the lighted parts.
  — Erin Kirkland, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• Blue, purple, or white whorls of flowers rise above the strappy foliage in summer.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 5 May 2026
• Blue, purple, or white whorls of flowers rise above the strappy foliage in summer.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
• Medlar is a small tree whose single, large, white blossoms are cradled in a whorl of forest-green leaves.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• Plus, with whorls of rubbery leaves, certain euphorbias create a fun, funky shape.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• After nine months, the pine had put out a new whorl of branches, and the trunk had grown, as had Ander’s courage.
  — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
• The whorl of its translucent shell offers a safe haven for retreat when the mollusk is threatened by a predator.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2016
• What the researchers found were traces of cartilage around the jaw in the rock, remnants of the skull as well as the jaws that held the tooth whorl.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
• Rela adapted the design of baroque scotias on the posts of a park outside to fashion a large whorl over the front entrance.
  — Elisabeth Malkin, ELLE Decor, 20 Feb. 2018
• These 2- to 3-foot whorls of stems and leaves, which dangle from tree branches, are like an Airbnb for the avian crowd.
  — George Ball, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017
• Through it all, no one found a better specimen that depicted where the whorl was located.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
• The fragrant foliage is topped by whorls of pink to purple blooms that attract bees and butterflies to the garden.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2025
• Each of the tracts was brightly colored, and looping, twisting and crisscrossing like a whorl of spaghetti.
  — Bijal P. Trivedi, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2015
• Dupuy-Spencer has chosen an angle from which the soldier’s hands are still visible among the whorls of metal.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
• For many volunteers, the service provided an outlet for a whorl of emotions that linger two decades later.
  — Lauren Hernandez, Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2021
• The best option would be to reach out, with or without permission, to touch the picture’s surface, tracing the whorls and the smeared grooves.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• Lo, Posh and Becks emerged, into the primordial celebrity whorl of the ’90s.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2023
• Sweet woodruff also delights the senses with fragrant, white spring flowers opening in loose bundles above whorls of glossy green foliage.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
• Few studies on canine whorls have been reported and none have assessed whorl position or direction of flow.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2012
• Due to this structure and composition, the authors of the new paper deduced that the stones were likely used as spindle whorls.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
• Over this time, Ren’s analysis shows, the whorls may have rotated ever so slightly, at about six tenths of a degree per year.
  — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 28 May 2018
• From Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s hand came branches and whorls, spines and webs.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
• Over the years, Clarke would take out that ball and study the whorls of that print—a reminder of boyhood, back when his friend was simply Barry.
  — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
• With a face that baffled paleontologists for years, this creature had a lower jaw made up of a spiral of teeth, known as a tooth-whorl.
  — Charlotte Stephenson, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2015
• But best are moonless nights, when shimmering whorls of the Milky Way fill the night and desert creatures emerge to crawl and slither the dunes.
  — Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026