32 examples of gyrate in sentences

See all along the shore, as you look up the bay towards the Lake House, how the millions of fireflies flash their tiny torches, upward and downward, this way and that, mingling and crossing, and gyrating and whirlinga troubled and billowy sea of millions upon millions of glowing and sparkling gems.

Turn, revolve, rotate, spin, whirl, gyrate.

It is constantly pulsating, gyrating, and, I might even say, dancing in a most beautiful manner....

Around the ovary and the uterus, the endocrines gyrate as the planets around the sun.

Among the thyroid-centered attitudes toward the self gyrate more than in any other type.

"Oh! Ooh!" Mrs. Tunnygate rushed to the door in time to see her spouse lumbering up the beach with a white object gyrating in the air behind him.

"If I thought you could ever really care what became of a man like me" Killian Van K. Vanderdynk's aristocratic senses began gyrating; he grasped the bars, the back of his hand brushed against hers, and the momentary contact sent a shock straight through the scion of that celebrated race.

V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve^; circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.

He ascended to the altar and danced or gyrated as he pleased.

Carmens an' Father Timeses, Pierrots an' Pierrettes, Pompadours an' Apaches was gyrating to the soft strains of the orchestra, who perspired at the piano in his shirt-sleeves.

Vot?" While the others were laughing at the plight of the German, he made an effort to arise and the machine promptly slid down an incline and sparked and gyrated until Hans' hair fairly stood on end with fright.

Each blossom now gyrated rapidly in a vertical plane.

But every few minutes he springs up into the air to the height of twenty or thirty feet, the white wings flashing in contrast to the black body, screams and gyrates, and then instantly returns to his former post and resumes his erect pose of waiting.

Her restored arm gyrated furiously, her tripping youth spelt witchery.

We staggered to and fro, clawing at one another; we gyrated round the room in a wild, unseemly waltz; we knocked over the chairs, we bumped against the table, we banged each other's heads against the walls; and all the time, as my adversary growled and showed his teeth like a savage dog, I was sensible of a strange feeling of physical enjoyment such as one might experience in some strenuous game.

At first he was disposed to show a good deal of fight, and, as we gyrated round the cellar, tugging, thrusting, wrenching and kicking, I found the strenuous muscular exercise strangely exhilarating.

My man will hover incessantly round me in the same way as the butterfly gyrates round the candle-light.

Not in bursts of flame did they go plunging down the depths, gyrating like mad comets with long smoke-trailers and redly licking manes of fire.

The Master, quite unmindful of the quickening bloodstream down his face and neck, looked sharplyas if impersonally interested in some problem of ballisticsat the spinning, gyrating figure that with grotesque contortions plummeted the depths.

And again that hatred seized me for all this pale Northern world, where the very birds gyrated like moon-smitten sprites, and the white spectre of virtue sat amid orgies where bloodless fools caroused.

It did not strike her that 'Dolphwho in an ordinary way should have been bounding ahead and anon bounding back to gyrate on his hind legs and encourage herpreferred to trot ahead some thirty or forty yards and wait for her to overtake him; nor that, when she came up, he avoided her eyes, pretending that here a doorstep, there a grating or water-main absorbed his curiosity.

Now, to the amazement of all, including the sheep-dogs, he lifted himself upon his hind legs and began to gyrate slowly.

As long as the lady seated on the chair in the centre pleases, the gentlemen are to gyrate round her.

He would catch for his word often, reiterating meanwhile the article, "the-a, the-a, the-a," his gaze meanwhile fixed upon the sky-light, and a nervously gyrating forefinger raised high and brightly illuminated.

His face fell; his whirling forefinger, ceasing to gyrate, tilted like a lance in rest at the obnoxious cowhide parapet.

32 examples of  gyrate  in sentences