How to Use whirligig in a Sentence

whirligig

noun
  • The whirligig's whirlwind rise took even toy store clerks by surprise.
    — Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com, 31 May 2017
  • His successor will now have to see whether the Johnsonian whirligig was all worth it.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
  • But Suzie is painfully aware that the truth is no match for the whirligig whims of the public, who hold all the power in their slippery hands.
    — Darren Franich, Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Co-written by Ryan Tedder, the song is a whirligig of whoops and claps that seems designed for the wedding dance floor.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Discotheque lighting by Justin Townsend is a whirligig of Barbie-pinks and tropical blues.
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 20 July 2023
  • Each character is both insightful and obtuse, and an intricate network of longings and loathings spins like a whirligig.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2026
  • For now at least, Gucci serves as the best-case-scenario for what can happen when the fashion whirligig turns, and a new interpreter takes over a storied brand.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The whirligig of time has returned a reimagining of Shakespeare’s comedy to Shakespeare in the Park.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • An intense whirligig of tannins metallically attacked my mouth and, on the finish, there was an astringent sizzle, with undertones of acid reflux.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Her interest in design could be seen in her collection of mercury glass and perfume bottles, and her love of art including whirligigs and Americana.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The smarmy introductions and whirligig graphics and general aura of hectic oversell could be replaced with a more confident statement of what theater, at its best, has been and can be.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2021
  • In memory, during that long-ago evening on the edge of the woods, even my young children were drawn into its whirligig of shipwrecks, twins in disguise, misread letters, wise foolery and foolish wisdom.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Items in the museum include kites, masks, whirligigs, dolls, animal figures, rugs, paintings, carvings from wood and from recycled Styrofoam.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Its second season struck me as a near-perfect whirligig of a TV season, constantly yanking the rug out from underneath itself and hoping its fall wasn’t too brutal.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The whirligig of literary reputation has brought about its own revenge, true to the Comic Spirit of irony that Meredith so often invoked.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The popularity of these whirligigs also corresponded to a new vogue for angel food cakes, which necessitated huge volumes of eggs to be beaten, the whites and the yolks separately.
    — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The hands-on, annual event engaged students in various activities, including basket weaving, tin punching and whirligig creations.
    — cleveland, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The deliciously intricate story begins in Manhattan, in 1933, in the form of a whirligig whodunnit.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But this moment—and the final passage of the IRA itself—shows how the Senate’s rules have devolved the legislative process into an inscrutable whirligig of procedural legerdemain.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The whirligig filming of a battle scene features a collection of Skid Row drunkards all, apparently, wielding real weapons; the segment ends with a tracking shot across the battle-wounded and the revelation that one guy’s dead.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022

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