How to Use gyre in a Sentence

gyre

noun
  • The gyre, as Yeats wrote, turns again.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • These gyres do not move gently.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Even as the gyre devours the sun.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • For one thing, ocean gyres tend to alter the sea levels around them.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In this place, the gyre is no longer allegory.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And we, spinning in the widening gyre, are left to decide whether to look away or to speak.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The gyre of discord expands without pause.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Water currents and gyres The ocean doesn't sit still like water in a sink.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • Although ocean currents swirl around it, within the gyre the water stills.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The idea is that the farms would mostly just float along with circular gyres found throughout the ocean.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Overall, the animals could be found within these whirlpool-like gyres more than three-fourths of the time.
    — Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic, 19 June 2018
  • The data suggests that the gyres have been steadily moving toward the poles for the last four decades.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Debris tends to collect in swirling, circular currents called gyres.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2019
  • Prevailing winds often push sea ice from the west around the tip of the peninsula to the east, where a gyre traps it against land.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • It's called the Central American Gyre; a gyre is just a broad spin.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The gyre often shifts positions in the ocean, depending on the season.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 26 June 2020
  • To get those tags on, though, the crew of banders would first need to get past the two angry parents, who circled around in a widening gyre.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2021
  • But then came a brace of developments that significantly widened the gyre.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • The voyage will cross four oceanic gyres, where ocean plastic is known to accumulate, and the Arctic.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
  • This round in the endless Israeli-Palestinian gyre has driven people over the edge.
    — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • By controlling the mixture, the gyre governs the annual spring bloom of phytoplankton, the base of the ocean food web.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Dr Ryan’s particular interest was where all the litter came from before it was swept into the gyre.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The patch was formed by a system of circulating currents known as a gyre that creates a whirlpool effect, Mason said.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Most alarming, the gyre expanded even in scenarios where greenhouse emissions dropped and climate warming slowed.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In a 73-foot steel boat, the women will voyage to four oceanic gyres, which are places on earth where the currents collect plastic in alarming amounts.
    — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2019
  • It is bounded by an enormous gyre -- spinning oceanic currents that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage vortex.
    — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Scientists found 484 animals from 46 species on plastic debris from the gyre.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Some plastic is nearly impossible to remove--the microplastics like microbeads that make up 8 percent of the total gyre.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Unlike most seas, the Sargasso doesn’t have strict boundaries but is loosely formed by the swirling currents of the North Atlantic gyre.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • Traveling by raft, Eriksen and Paschal make their way into the gyre the way that plastic garbage does—passively carried along by the current.
    — Rachel Riederer, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017

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