How to Use gyrate in a Sentence

gyrate

verb

• They gyrated to the music.
• The theater seats gyrate and shift to bring scenes to life.
  — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
• One of the adults from Sawa plugs in a radio, and the kids gyrate to fizzy Lebanese pop.
  — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
• There are no gyrating dancers or over-the-top set pieces.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2018
• An offense does not have time to line up, gyrate through all this, then change the play and do it all again.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• There’s an outdoor shower in which dancers get to gyrate and show off their moves.
  — Susan Hornik, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
• As markets gyrate, talk in the press (including this very column) turns to the risk of a slump.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
• These fish have a tendency to gyrate and just go crazy when trying to land them.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• Those guys could stop on a dime and turn it around and do anything, float through space and gyrate and levitate.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• But even since that plunge, the yield on two-year notes has gyrated sharply higher and lower.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• But the market is gyrating for more than just that reason.
  — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2020
• Prices can gyrate and that can leave unwitting customers in a bind.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• There are at least two giant skeletons with glowing eyes and a gyrating specter on the wall.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• The moms fist-pumped and gyrated with abandon throughout the concert.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• After dinner, a very flexible singer called Chris—of Christine and the Queens—gyrates across the stage.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
• Stocks have gyrated over the last few days following one of their biggest declines of the year last week.
  — Marley Jay, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Ions that escape from its volcanic moon Io get swept up by the planet's magnetic field and gyrate around the field lines.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2019
• The censors tended to gyrate between the fainting couch and the battlefield.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• So Spidey donning a corset and wig to gyrate onstage is no small subversion.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 29 June 2017
• The longtime friends sat next to one another on stage and held up score cards as dancers performed on a catwalk and gyrated on the two stars.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
• In any case, points out one adviser to the Labour leadership, after three years of the Brexit process Britons have got used to the pound gyrating all over the place.
  — The Economist, 30 Oct. 2019
• The dancers, who double as performers and teachers, gyrate in a circle as the alpacas wriggle among them.
  — John Clarke, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
• As a dance crew of neon gnomes and a sequined rapping triceratops stomped and gyrated atop the ice cream truck, vegan ice cream was dispersed among the crowd.
  — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2019
• Your first thrill will be the sight of the 'Washing Machine'—a confluence of sea and cliff that creates the illusion of a giant, gyrating swirl of water.
  — David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
• In Portland, nude dancers freely gyrate inches from customers’ faces.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2019
• This was the second time the pair had gyrated while their bodies bumped into one another.
  — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 19 Oct. 2017
• With hips gyrating, a dozen women sporting scarlet bodysuit and pumps joined in, as ALN sang.
  — Bianca Alysse, Billboard, 10 June 2018
• But the safest bet of all is that those odds will continue to gyrate in both directions between now and November 8.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• In fact, Dark Hallway was instantly salivating at the sight of the Stripers’ two slinky symbols, gyrating in skin-tight, striped suits.
  — al, 26 Feb. 2020
• In the Contemplation Room, a naked dancer gyrated while wearing large black wings.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017

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