How to Use vortex in a Sentence

vortex

noun

• Half of it is flushed down the toilet, down the vortex!
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022
• The stronger the polar vortex, the milder the USA's winter is.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
• The wall cloud is a lowering of the cloud base that will lead to the vortex, or spinning of air.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• It’s like [the] whole of the outside world is going through some sort of weird vortex.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
• Two side-by-side structures of the same height, for instance, form a vortex that runs up the side of one and down the other.
  — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
• But even those with a plan were not immune to the impacts of the financial vortex.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Water waves that come too close to the drain are inescapably sucked into the vortex.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
• The polar vortex is a zone of cold air that normally spins like a top high above the North Pole.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
• The ozone hole is related to the Antarctic polar vortex, a band of swirling cold air that moves around the Earth.
  — Jeevan Ravindran, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
• Next door to the Kimmel studios is a swirling vortex of souvenir malarkey.
  — Vulture, 28 Jan. 2022
• Taylor-Joy’s Sandie is opaque, but in the right way: the sacrificial fetish in a vortex of fear.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• Roofs had been ripped off and their remains were swirling in the vortex, along with other debris.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Within seconds, the bombardment was over, and the vortex was gone.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
• Surface only after you’ve cleared the vortex near the dam.
  — Rob Goodier, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2021
• The polar vortex is an area of low air pressure that constantly swirls around the north and south poles.
  — Kyla Mandel, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
• And even more mystifying is the way the blameless are dragged into the vortex.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Normally the jet stream winds around the vortex and acts as a lasso of sorts, keeping the cold air trapped inside.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2021
• The patch results from ocean currents that swirl in a vortex and leave trash captured in their center.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2021
• The process involves creating a vortex in a tank of water.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• The Arctic polar vortex is a strong band of winds in the stratosphere surrounding the North Pole about 10 to 30 miles above the surface.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2021
• In the short term, the polar vortex of 2021 followed by the hottest summer on record in the U.S. have driven down gas supplies in storage.
  — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• In the early morning hours, the eye of the storm came over our home, just north of Orlando, like a vortex of doom, terror on both sides.
  — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
• Stephanie LaCava: The book was just what was going on with me at that moment, in my own vortex.
  — Hazlitt, 7 Nov. 2022
• It was destined to come crashing down, and the polar vortex of 2021 was the assault that finally broke the Texas grid.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2021
• The polar vortex above the Arctic has been spinning backwards for weeks.
  — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
• That’s well over twice the price from six months ago, and the highest level since the 2014 polar vortex shivered large sections of the country.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
• Some of them are American products, deep in the AAU/prep school vortex, training away from home.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• The movie’s in riotous color, the TV set was black and white, and still little Marty was pulled into the vortex of its strangeness.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Just like the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere has a polar vortex – strong winds circulating high in the atmosphere that trap cold air in place.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 3 Aug. 2024
• These barrels were aged on the fifth and sixth floors of Coy Hill Barrelhouse 8, a special vortex on the distillery’s campus that results in some flame-throwing Tennessee whiskey.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024