How to Use maelstrom in a Sentence
maelstrom
noun- The ship was drawn into the maelstrom.
- She was caught in a maelstrom of emotions.
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Even those of us too young to have lived through it were caught in the maelstrom.
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Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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In the maelstrom of this year, baseball has slowed life down.
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Colin St. John,
The Denver Post,
16 June 2017
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These maelstroms can be thousands of miles wide and last for years.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
6 June 2024
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Noomin was a powerful voice that got heard amid the male maelstrom.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
20 Sep. 2022
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Jen is, once again, at the center of a maelstrom in the most recent episode.
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Scott D. Pierce,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
27 Sep. 2021
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Brief breaks in the maelstrom gave way to heavy snow blown sideways by gusting winds.
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Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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At the same time, the maelstrom is so intense that a surfer can’t just admire the view.
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Júlia Ledur,
Washington Post,
29 July 2024
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Adidas and other brands have cut ties with Ye amid the maelstrom.
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Brian Contreras,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Dec. 2022
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And what reasonable way there could be out of this ugly maelstrom.
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Greg Palkot,
Fox News,
3 Dec. 2023
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Most of the men saw not yet the need of heroic steps, steps that would take them out over the brink of the maelstrom.
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Rosa Inocencio Smith,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2017
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Peso isn’t there as a maelstrom of opening brass notes charge out of the sound system.
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Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2024
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What followed was a media maelstrom.
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Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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But here again, there will be evidence of the maelstrom that has torn through the royals these past few years.
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Alexander Smith,
NBC News,
1 June 2022
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If Edwards is a maelstrom, Hastings is a sea of calm.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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In Lebanon, which has trudged through a maelstrom of crises over the last year, a new disaster looms.
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Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN,
4 Oct. 2020
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However, the person at the center of this maelstrom is your boyfriend – not his kids.
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Amy Dickinson,
Detroit Free Press,
13 Jan. 2020
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However, the person at the center of this maelstrom is your boyfriend — not his kids.
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Washington Post,
13 Jan. 2020
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However, the person at the center of this maelstrom is your boyfriend -- not his kids.
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Amy Dickinson,
oregonlive,
13 Jan. 2020
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Health Connect is the last portion of this mini-news maelstrom.
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Florence Ion / Gizmodo,
Quartz,
26 Feb. 2024
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And the maelstrom surrounding prices and process persists.
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Eric Prisbell,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, thrill-seekers in and outside that space found freedom in the maelstrom.
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Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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This is also to be expected because the city is trying to quell a brewing maelstrom.
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Essence,
26 Nov. 2025
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Its wide main first-floor aisle, a maelstrom on weekends, stretches 391 feet from one end to the other.
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Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2026
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But the political maelstrom was growing more intense by the hour, and five kids were stuck in the middle.
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Rebecca Boone,
ajc,
10 Sep. 2022
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Blue Hill, as a private nonprofit, avoided much of this maelstrom.
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Laura Martin Agudelo,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The idea is that a free press needs some breathing room to make errors in the rough and tumble of the information maelstrom.
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Wired,
18 Oct. 2019
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In the midst of the maelstrom, Jeon / Ok-ju is spinning, chopping and shooting with the best of them.
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Patrick Frater,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2023
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In the maelstrom of modern war, presumed certainties crumble like piecrust.
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George F. Will,
Washington Post,
6 Mar. 2026
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