How to Use maelstrom in a Sentence

maelstrom

noun

• The ship was drawn into the maelstrom.
• She was caught in a maelstrom of emotions.
• But in the maelstrom of 2020 even mighty Exxon had to budge.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Amid the maelstrom, the Queen agreed to the suspension.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2019
• At the same time, the maelstrom is so intense that a surfer can’t just admire the view.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• Jen is, once again, at the center of a maelstrom in the most recent episode.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021
• Hyneman calls it The Rainstorm: The inside of the tank is a maelstrom.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
• In the midst of the maelstrom, Jeon / Ok-ju is spinning, chopping and shooting with the best of them.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
• These maelstroms can be thousands of miles wide and last for years.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
• Since the end of Moammar Gadhafi's rule in 2011, Libya has been a maelstrom.
  — Tim Lister, Sam Kiley and Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 9 June 2020
• In Lebanon, which has trudged through a maelstrom of crises over the last year, a new disaster looms.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 4 Oct. 2020
• Many appear to be recording the maelstrom on their phones.
  — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• In the midst of the punk maelstrom, MacGowan was still soaking up Irish music.
  — Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
• This is your first book being released in the wake of your being at the center of the RWA maelstrom.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Adidas and other brands have cut ties with Ye amid the maelstrom.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• Noomin was a powerful voice that got heard amid the male maelstrom.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
• Peso isn’t there as a maelstrom of opening brass notes charge out of the sound system.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2024
• But here again, there will be evidence of the maelstrom that has torn through the royals these past few years.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 1 June 2022
• There was a maelstrom of singing, shouting, and testifying to the goodness of the Lord.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• The Fed last cut rates by half a point in October 2008, the maelstrom of the financial crisis.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• Leon, Kennedy and McDonald to sweep us, too, into the maelstrom.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• However, the person at the center of this maelstrom is your boyfriend — not his kids.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• However, the person at the center of this maelstrom is your boyfriend – not his kids.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2020
• However, the person at the center of this maelstrom is your boyfriend -- not his kids.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2020
• Health Connect is the last portion of this mini-news maelstrom.
  — Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• The idea is that a free press needs some breathing room to make errors in the rough and tumble of the information maelstrom.
  — Wired, 18 Oct. 2019
• In 2017, Cara cowrote a young adult novel, Mirror, Mirror, that was informed by the maelstrom of her teenage years.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the political maelstrom that is 2020, Porter's two latest movies feel like the brief pause in the eye of a hurricane.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2020
• And what reasonable way there could be out of this ugly maelstrom.
  — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• The World to Come is an invitation to step into that maelstrom.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024