: winding or coiled around : convoluted
gyrate branches of a tree
gyrated; gyrating
1
: to revolve around a point or axis
2
: to oscillate with or as if with a circular or spiral motion
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Examples of gyrate in a Sentence
Verb
They gyrated to the music.
the gyroscope got its name for the way the disk inside the instrument gyrates around an axis
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Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
The stock market can seem to gyrate with little rhyme or reason, guided up or down by unpredictable news cycles and fickle investor sentiment.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
Bowen’s gyrating grass linking Earthlings to Mars will appear in Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination, a new exhibit featuring 10 multidisciplinary artists who collaborated with scientists and engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
The result of that experiment is Sue (Margaret Qualley), who gets her own show that involves a bunch more twerking and gyrating.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
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Verb
As drums beat, cymbals clang, and women chant, visitors wave their arms, gyrate their hips, and whip their heads – letting loose, as if no one in the world is watching.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
The stock market can seem to gyrate with little rhyme or reason, guided up or down by unpredictable news cycles and fickle investor sentiment.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
Bowen’s gyrating grass linking Earthlings to Mars will appear in Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination, a new exhibit featuring 10 multidisciplinary artists who collaborated with scientists and engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
The result of that experiment is Sue (Margaret Qualley), who gets her own show that involves a bunch more twerking and gyrating.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
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“Gyrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gyrate. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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gyrate
adjective
gy·rate
ˈjī-ˌrāt 
: winding or coiled around : convoluted
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