Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at whirlwind.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Whirlwind.
Examples
-
Tyler told the General about Project Oasis’s connection to John Coleman and how Tyler had briefly worked on the project when it was called Whirlwind.
-
Voice of the Whirlwind is a sort-of sequel to Hardwired, and it already has aliens in it.
-
The rebellion known as the Whirlwind has been crushed only at a truly staggering cost, whilst the subcontinent has been devastated by plague.
-
The rebellion known as the Whirlwind has been crushed only at a truly staggering cost, whilst the subcontinent has been devastated by plague.
-
Later at MIT, first the Navy and then the Air Force supported a computer called Whirlwind.
-
Later at MIT, first the Navy and then the Air Force supported a computer called Whirlwind.
-
In the blink of an eye the sword form called Whirlwind on the Mountain became The Wind Blows Over the Wall became Unfolding the Fan.
-
I wonder if the universities and the city institutions that go round trying to raise money by the slow and painful method called a Whirlwind Campaign, that takes perhaps all day to raise fifty thousand dollars, ever thought of anything so beautifully simple as this.
-
It is quite probable that the plan of calling Whirlwind to him would have succeeded, as the youth afterward admitted; but it certainly would have been attended with risk of failure, and he never regretted the decision he made within the same minute that he caught sight of his equine friend.
-
For many a league they followed them, over all the isles of the Cyclades, and away to the south-west across Hellas, till they came to the Ionian Sea, and there they fell upon the Echinades, at the mouth of the Achelous; and those isles were called the Whirlwind Isles for many a hundred years.
fbharjo commented on the word Whirlwind
MIT's Whirlwind
December 26, 2010