How to Use gyrate in a Sentence

gyrate

verb
  • They gyrated to the music.
  • There’s an outdoor shower in which dancers get to gyrate and show off their moves.
    — Susan Hornik, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • An offense does not have time to line up, gyrate through all this, then change the play and do it all again.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • These fish have a tendency to gyrate and just go crazy when trying to land them.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Prices can gyrate and that can leave unwitting customers in a bind.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But even since that plunge, the yield on two-year notes has gyrated sharply higher and lower.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • One of the adults from Sawa plugs in a radio, and the kids gyrate to fizzy Lebanese pop.
    — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Those guys could stop on a dime and turn it around and do anything, float through space and gyrate and levitate.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • There are at least two giant skeletons with glowing eyes and a gyrating specter on the wall.
    — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • One of Katy Perry’s two gyrating sharks in fugue state.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • As markets gyrate, talk in the press (including this very column) turns to the risk of a slump.
    — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The moms fist-pumped and gyrated with abandon throughout the concert.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • In Portland, nude dancers freely gyrate inches from customers’ faces.
    — New York Times, 24 July 2019
  • Stocks have gyrated over the last few days following one of their biggest declines of the year last week.
    — Marley Jay, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
  • So Spidey donning a corset and wig to gyrate onstage is no small subversion.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 29 June 2017
  • Markets have gyrated as traders try to discern the outlook for the Fed.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This was the second time the pair had gyrated while their bodies bumped into one another.
    — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Yes, stocks crashed on Monday and were still gyrating wildly midweek.
    — Ann Carrns, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • That’s why this president is gyrating on a daily or hourly basis about whether or not to climb down from this war or to double down.
    — NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The longtime friends sat next to one another on stage and held up score cards as dancers performed on a catwalk and gyrated on the two stars.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Ions that escape from its volcanic moon Io get swept up by the planet's magnetic field and gyrate around the field lines.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Steinhoff shares and bonds have gyrated wildly over the past week as investors try to ascertain what value might be left.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The censors tended to gyrate between the fainting couch and the battlefield.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • But rising rates may also provide a lift to trading, as changing rates cause stock and bond prices to gyrate more frequently.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The dancers, who double as performers and teachers, gyrate in a circle as the alpacas wriggle among them.
    — John Clarke, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Staid mortgage behemoths gyrated like meme stocks.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • As Duncan sadly notes, Gabe has stationed armed guards where models in bikinis used to gyrate.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Apr. 2026
  • As Duncan sadly notes, Gabe has stationed armed guards where models in bikinis used to gyrate.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • As a dance crew of neon gnomes and a sequined rapping triceratops stomped and gyrated atop the ice cream truck, vegan ice cream was dispersed among the crowd.
    — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In the Contemplation Room, a naked dancer gyrated while wearing large black wings.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017

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