How to Use eddy in a Sentence
- The boat was caught in a powerful eddy.
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Young fish hide and adult fish rest in the new back eddies and shadows along the shore.
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Brian Payton,
Smithsonian,
9 Feb. 2018
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The wind is strong enough to push the insects beyond my eddy.
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Alaska Dispatch News,
5 Aug. 2017
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And below the falls, small blocks of ice floated in the eddies.
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Kevin Ambrose,
Washington Post,
9 Jan. 2018
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Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown.
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Wired,
11 Aug. 2019
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The school of trout roamed the current and eddies, picking off easy meals.
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Shannon Tompkins,
Houston Chronicle,
22 Mar. 2018
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My eyes still had a shine, but beneath them bags had formed into eddies of flesh.
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John Lahr,
Esquire,
16 June 2016
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If the wind is just right, small eddies and whirls (sometimes called steam devils) can spin up.
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Matthew Cappucci,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2018
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The researchers compared it to the way eddies form around a rock in a river.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
13 June 2018
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Ida is about to hit an eddy of what's called the Loop Current.
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Seth Borenstein,
ajc,
29 Aug. 2021
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At some point, the roar of the river died down and the canoe slid into a wide eddy.
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Porter Fox,
New York Times,
20 June 2018
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Chuck and Dalton found an eddy in the stream where small fish were chilling.
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Washington Post,
3 May 2021
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Bits of trash collected beside the boat ramp, caught in an eddy.
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Justin Wm. Moyer,
Washington Post,
27 Nov. 2023
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Trees flanked the opposite bank, and salmon were spawning in a small eddy.
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oregonlive,
26 Sep. 2020
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Dabiri was surprised at how big these eddies were, relative to the size of the shrimp.
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Elizabeth Pennisi,
Science | AAAS,
18 Apr. 2018
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Cast to prime smallmouth hangouts such as eddies, logs near shore, lone rocks, or limestone ledges.
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Gerald Almy,
Field & Stream,
20 Mar. 2023
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In summer, the water warms up and the river eddies are great spots to jump in, cool off and float around.
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Tom Stienstra,
San Francisco Chronicle,
13 May 2018
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When the powerful swell tosses the hull, raises it up, and sweeps it along in eddies of foam.
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Martin Dumont,
The New York Review of Books,
5 Feb. 2020
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Swim jigs, crankbaits and swimbaits all score here in the pools and eddies, as does the A-Rig.
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Frank Sargeant,
al,
27 Dec. 2019
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Look for schools of fish holding in shallow water near rocky points, coves and current eddies.
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Jordan Rodriguez,
idahostatesman,
13 Oct. 2017
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The dirt of the desert is circling around in little eddies as the wind blends it together with the starlight.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
16 Jan. 2026
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The dirt of the desert is circling around in little eddies as the wind blends it together with the starlight.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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In an eddy, the current changes direction and curls upstream.
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Popular Mechanics Editors,
Popular Mechanics,
25 July 2021
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These eddies might affect the way air flows past the butterfly, reducing drag on its wings.
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Carlyn Kranking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2023
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The Byrd motets luxuriate in eddies, cross-currents and great waves of sound.
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas News,
25 Jan. 2020
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Put in at the boat launch and zip upstream in search of boulders, points, weed lines, eddies, drop-offs and other bassy structure.
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By Jordan Rodriguez,
idahostatesman,
17 Aug. 2017
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The subjects of conversation melt and swirl and resurface in thick eddies.
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Ben Brantley,
New York Times,
30 Oct. 2017
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Waves attack the jagged columns of black basalt that thrust from the ocean below, crashing in silvery eddies around their base.
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Trish Lorenz,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Feb. 2020
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Waves attack the jagged columns of black basalt that thrust from the ocean below, crashing in silvery eddies around their base.
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Trish Lorenz,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2020
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Lake works the crowd, and an eddy of staff and security circles the woman at its center.
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Ruby Cramer,
Anchorage Daily News,
16 Oct. 2022
- The waves swirled and eddied against the pier.
- The wind gusted and eddied around us.
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Around the ceiling light, a swarm of flies eddied, droning monotonously.
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Ben Taub,
The New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2018
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Below, a meadow of soft gold wild grass sways in the wind like the bay’s eddying waters.
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Hamish Bowles,
Vogue,
15 Aug. 2018
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Even as rhymes ricochet about, the whole seems to eddy from the walls into the room’s center.
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BostonGlobe.com,
31 Oct. 2019
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This is all great, but no one has ever measured the way that eddies flux heat or CO2.
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Quanta Magazine,
11 Apr. 2013
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It’s glutted with supporting characters, and the plot still eddies through a series of clearly episodic incidents.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
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The dancers’ bodies seem always a-curve, torsos and arms frequently describing circles in the air, or whole bodies eddying down and pooling out into soft rolls on the floor.
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Janine Parker,
BostonGlobe.com,
5 July 2019
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In the same way that eddies in a stream alter downstream currents, Elgindi’s work itself prompted a new round of mathematical discovery.
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Quanta Magazine,
13 Jan. 2020
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Each of these four parts has a beginning, middle, and end—can stand alone—and each then is embedded in the larger narrative, each reflecting off the others, with the same characters and properties, pooling and eddying, surging forward, draining back.
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Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
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And then in those late nineteen-sixties and early seventies the politician Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had found the magic words with which to beguile an unsophisticated electorate—equality, power to the people, distribution of wealth and nationalizations—and so all those ideas were eddying about.
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Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
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