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 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
• 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
• But even those with a plan were not immune to the impacts of the financial vortex.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Next door to the Kimmel studios is a swirling vortex of souvenir malarkey.
  — Vulture, 28 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Within seconds, the bombardment was over, and the vortex was gone.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
• 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
• And even more mystifying is the way the blameless are dragged into the vortex.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The process involves creating a vortex in a tank of water.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• In the early morning hours, the eye of the storm came over our home, just north of Orlando, like a vortex of doom, terror on both sides.
  — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
• Stephanie LaCava: The book was just what was going on with me at that moment, in my own vortex.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Nov. 2022
• Some of them are American products, deep in the AAU/prep school vortex, training away from home.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• The anomalous heat in the Arctic can form rising air from the surface, and that can strengthen the low pressure system, which is one of the the spinning vortex.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
• The footage enabled the team to predict the trajectory of the spores and how they are carried by the swirling cyclone-like vortex created by the leaves.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2024
• There are great places of New Age lore tucked in to this zone, vortexes and energy fields, ways to explain the gnarled trees perhaps.
  — Matthew Askari, Men's Health, 19 Apr. 2023
• Bits of super-heated air from fires start to spin, then rotate flames inside a vortex.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• Watch as a glitter vortex forms around the nail, transforming it from plain to super sparkled in a matter of seconds!
  — The View, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• The vortex at the Luxor occurred where several buildings stand near the pools and likely helped channel the winds, Woods said.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
• In the digital vortex, the din of customer and troll feedback can dilute your message.
  — Nancy A Shenker, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• When a raindrop hits a leaf of a wheat plant that is infected with rust, the leaf will flutter and create these tiny swirling vortices of air that spreads the spores around.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Chicagoan in me hangs his head in shame as the 50-degree temperatures feel like a polar vortex to my now-tender skin.
  — Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
• The vista trail is a 30-minute hike to the iconic Kachina Woman rock formation—said to be the pinnacle of the vortex energy in the canyon—and is best done at dusk.
  — Annie Daly, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
• This vortex funnels air in such a way that hair speedily transitions from straight-from-the-shower-drenched to dry.
  — Lori Keong, Allure, 16 Mar. 2022
• Logic is quick to make its exit, turning the voice inside my mind into a vortex of worry and doubt.
  — Kui Mwai, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
• When a wave begins to break, tiny aerated regions along the leading edge cause a few streams to separate from the main vortex.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 July 2022
• When Jed himself is lost in the swirling ether, Dream arrives as scheduled, reminding her that none of her friends is safe until the vortex is dead.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 9 Aug. 2022
• Two words not used this winter in Chicago — polar vortex.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• One month later, with the Super Bowl finally here, I’ve been drawn deep into the sports-betting vortex.
  — Adam Chandler, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
• In the case of these styling systems, a spinning vortex of air wraps around the barrel, attracting hair and thereby curling along the same airflow.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024