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44 examples of Vortex in a sentence

And this thing is the second vortex to be built in the world, in a two-and-a-half meter drop on a river.
And it turns out that the insects flap their wings in a very clever way, at a very high angle of attack that creates a structure at the leading edge of the wing, a little tornado-like structure called a leading edge vortex, and it's that vortex that actually enables the wings to make enough force for the animal to stay in the air.
He used a toaster oven, and he even made his own vortex mixer, based on a tutorial by another scientist/maker.
Now, in MTF, what you want to do is you take a big vat and you fill that with liquid metal, and you spin the liquid metal to open a vortex in the center, a bit like your sink.
When you pull the plug on a sink, it makes a vortex.
So it's going to be a big machine, about three meters in diameter, liquid lead spinning around, big vortex in the center, put the plasma on the top and on the bottom, piston hits on the side, bang!, it compresses it, and it will make some energy, and the neutron will come out in the liquid metal, going to go in a steam engine and make the turbine, and some of the steam will go back to fire the piston.
And as they swirl in tight formation, this multi-step column of mantas creates its own vortex, sucking in and delivering the plankton right into the mantas' cavernous mouths.
And of course, the waylakama spin, the trajectory of the route, is marked by holy mounds of Earth, where coke is given to the Earth, libations of alcohol to the wind, the vortex of the feminine is brought to the mountaintop.
After months lost at sea, he's slowly drawn into a massive vortex, where trash accumulates, a place known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
So here I was wallowing in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness.
Included an invisible cat and a spinning vortex.
It's worth the five bucks to see the woman turn into a huge CG snake and devour the whole train then get sucked into a huge vortex though.
In "Red Letters", Coyote is at the vortex of as a college professor who writes to a female prison inmate and gets more than he bargained for.
Also, I don't think I've ever seen a "stoner" sex comedy that didn't provide at least one laugh, but this vortex of pain provided nothing but groans and misery.
During certain parts, was it just me or did you see vortex visuals?
A town becomes obsessed and then all-consumed by the vortex pattern in some very grotesque ways.
They find themselves in considerable peril when the place is suddenly thrust into a time vortex where the past, present and future collide in a wildly chaotic and unpredictable manner.
"24" sticks Sutherland in the vortex of suspenseful intrigues involving an assassination plot, kidnapping, murder, countless looks askance, um...oh, yeah, and the in-flight demolition of a jumbo jet.
The movie seems to live in a timeless vortex where repetition rules the day.
This is confusing at best, with two men transported in time from 1943 to 1984, one of whom gets returned, the other not and the one that does not has to save the world from the vortex created by a military experiment.
Fred Mac Murray's cop starts out as a professional but ends up in a vortex of crime thanks to the compelling allure of the shapely Miss Novak.
Every time I see "Queen Bee" it's as if a gigantic black hole has opened and I'm pulled inexorably into the vortex known as Joan Crawford.
"Hysterical Blindness", which has nothing to do with the psychogenic condition suggested by the title, is a gritty character study with Thurman at the vortex as a graspingly needy working class woman whose poor sense of self drives her like a derailed freight train into the arms of a man who uses her like a Bic.
It is a spiraling vortex down to an unavoidable end.
But an insect she animates causes chaos and accidentally sucks the Omegahedron down a warp vortex.
A breakdown, by contrast, though unlikely to lead immediately to war, could easily foment developments that lead in that direction, and the region as a whole could be pulled even deeper into the current vortex of chaos and violence.
With the region seemingly being sucked deeper into a vortex of permanent conflict, it is easy to believe that only dictators or religious bigots could impose any stability.
Nonetheless, we must not submit to panic and despair, or allow ourselves to be drawn into a vortex of negative inertia.
Crippled PakistanNEW DELHI – The problems and dilemmas confronting Pakistan’s leadership – including a deepening vortex of mutual suspicions, sectarian killings, and brazen terrorism – are almost too numerous to count.
If China enters the vortex, its trade partners will not be able to pull it out this time.