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  • adverb With a whirling motion.

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whirling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • There is quite a blogostorm (more like a tornado, as blogosphere controversies tend to be whirlingly circular) going on about the recent decision by Associated Press (AP), a major news aggregate and syndication service, to limit the amount of its material bloggers can reproduce -- in some cases to less than 40 words, which is draconian.

    Media Maxine 2009

  • There is quite a blogostorm (more like a tornado, as blogosphere controversies tend to be whirlingly circular) going on about the recent decision by Associated Press (AP), a major news aggregate and syndication service, to limit the amount of its material bloggers can reproduce -- in some cases to less than 40 words, which is draconian.

    Rules of reproduction Maxine 2008

  • There is quite a blogostorm (more like a tornado, as blogosphere controversies tend to be whirlingly circular) going on about the recent decision by Associated Press (AP), a major news aggregate and syndication service, to limit the amount of its material bloggers can reproduce -- in some cases to less than 40 words, which is draconian.

    Rules of reproduction Maxine 2008

  • There is quite a blogostorm (more like a tornado, as blogosphere controversies tend to be whirlingly circular) going on about the recent decision by Associated Press (AP), a major news aggregate and syndication service, to limit the amount of its material bloggers can reproduce -- in some cases to less than 40 words, which is draconian.

    June 2008 Maxine 2008

  • And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock.

    Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

  • The forces of nature are so tame, so simple, so obedient; and in the next instant so absolutely beyond human control or direction, so whirlingly contemptuous of puny human effort, that in time the wilderness shrouds itself to our eyes in the same impenetrable mystery as the sea.

    The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

  • The forces of nature are so tame, so simple, so obedient; and in the next instant so absolutely beyond human control or direction, so whirlingly contemptuous of puny human effort, that in time the wilderness shrouds itself to our eyes in the same impenetrable mystery as the sea.

    The Blazed Trail 1902

  • Immediately afterwards was heard a loud noise, which turned Susanna's glance to the heights, where she saw, as it were, a pillar of smoke whirlingly ascend upwards.

    Strife and Peace Fredrika Bremer 1833

  • And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

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