How to Use eddy in a Sentence

eddy

1 of 2 noun

• The boat was caught in a powerful eddy.
• Swim jigs, crankbaits and swimbaits all score here in the pools and eddies, as does the A-Rig.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 27 Dec. 2019
• And below the falls, small blocks of ice floated in the eddies.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
• Young fish hide and adult fish rest in the new back eddies and shadows along the shore.
  — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• Ida is about to hit an eddy of what's called the Loop Current.
  — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 29 Aug. 2021
• The school of trout roamed the current and eddies, picking off easy meals.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown.
  — Wired, 11 Aug. 2019
• The wind is strong enough to push the insects beyond my eddy.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
• At some point, the roar of the river died down and the canoe slid into a wide eddy.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
• The researchers compared it to the way eddies form around a rock in a river.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 June 2018
• Dabiri was surprised at how big these eddies were, relative to the size of the shrimp.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 18 Apr. 2018
• Chuck and Dalton found an eddy in the stream where small fish were chilling.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2021
• In summer, the water warms up and the river eddies are great spots to jump in, cool off and float around.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2018
• Tiny petals, blushing white with red tips, float and eddy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• If the wind is just right, small eddies and whirls (sometimes called steam devils) can spin up.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• The eddy extended all the way from San Clemente Island to the county’s foothills.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2021
• Landos was with Ryan Doughty in a boat resting in an eddy.
  — Steamboat Today, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• Trees flanked the opposite bank, and salmon were spawning in a small eddy.
  — oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2020
• When the powerful swell tosses the hull, raises it up, and sweeps it along in eddies of foam.
  — Martin Dumont, The New York Review of Books, 5 Feb. 2020
• My eyes still had a shine, but beneath them bags had formed into eddies of flesh.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• Bits of trash collected beside the boat ramp, caught in an eddy.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• In this multicolored light, the eddies and swirls in the dust stream recall the glimmer of oil on water.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
• Put in at the boat launch and zip upstream in search of boulders, points, weed lines, eddies, drop-offs and other bassy structure.
  — By Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 17 Aug. 2017
• The current sometimes caused an eddy to form on the location, and this appeared to trigger the bite, Leary said.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 26 Nov. 2021
• The turquoise whorls and eddies visible from space are the work of phytoplankton that have turned the water both bright and milky.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
• The 67 wind turbines of the Meridian Way Wind Farm straddle dozens of farms and ranches, following the contours of the land and the eddies of the wind above it.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2020
• The Byrd motets luxuriate in eddies, cross-currents and great waves of sound.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2020
• Behind Xiong, the Nu River flows freely, bumbling with rapids, swirling with eddies.
  — National Geographic, 12 May 2016
• That hadn’t been the result of some random eddy of energy.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• The water’s surface is flaked with ashes; ceremonial flowers linger in the eddies.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023

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eddy

2 of 2 verb

• The waves swirled and eddied against the pier.
• The wind gusted and eddied around us.
• This is all great, but no one has ever measured the way that eddies flux heat or CO2.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013
• Below, a meadow of soft gold wild grass sways in the wind like the bay’s eddying waters.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2018
• Around the ceiling light, a swarm of flies eddied, droning monotonously.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• The waves swirled and eddied against the pier.
• The wind gusted and eddied around us.
• This is all great, but no one has ever measured the way that eddies flux heat or CO2.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013
• Below, a meadow of soft gold wild grass sways in the wind like the bay’s eddying waters.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2018
• Around the ceiling light, a swarm of flies eddied, droning monotonously.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024