How to Use whirlwind in a Sentence

whirlwind

1 of 2 noun
  • My life has been a whirlwind lately.
  • He attended a whirlwind of meetings.
  • It's been a whirlwind of a week.
    — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • All jokes aside, this year has been a whirlwind.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • It’s been a whirlwind for stocks over the past month.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The last few years have been a total whirlwind.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026
  • And then there was this whirlwind of what came after.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In short, fall can be a whirlwind of a season.
    — John Walkup, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Getting lost in the whirlwind is half the fun.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
  • So in a whirlwind week or two, Gosling was in, then out.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
  • The days and months that followed were a whirlwind.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Here's a look back at their whirlwind romance.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Talk about a whirlwind of emotions.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • The best way to handle a whirlwind is to find a place to anchor.
    — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • It’s been a whirlwind few years for Payne, Nscale’s founder.
    — Ryan Browne,jordan Novet, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Those first days in Toronto were a whirlwind.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The fact that this is happening again is a whirlwind.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Looking back just two years is a whirlwind for Caglianone.
    — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
  • My family are my rock in this whole crazy whirlwind.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 June 2026
  • Then came the whirlwind of Leavitt’s life.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The next 12 hours were a culinary whirlwind.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
  • And the whirlwind of the double life begins.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Who could challenge after a whirlwind of change?
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Calm restores your strength, so don’t feel bad about stepping away from the whirlwind.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • For Cubs fans, 2016 was a whirlwind year.
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Liu has been on a whirlwind tour of late-night talk and morning shows since the Olympics.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The last six days have been a whirlwind for Shilo Sanders.
    — Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Where Luna moves like a whirlwind, Jane sweeps up the crumbs.
    — Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The cosmos are cooking up a whirlwind of passion for you!
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026

whirlwind

2 of 2 adjective
  • The band went on a whirlwind concert tour.
  • We continued on at a whirlwind pace.
  • They were married after a whirlwind romance.
  • It’s been quite the whirlwind year for Black love.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 4 Dec. 2025
  • And so kicked off the family's whirlwind two-week trip in Ecuador.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2022
  • And that was only the beginning of their whirlwind month.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Evans’ whirlwind legal problems all stem from the same fateful day.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The couple married three years ago after a whirlwind four-month courtship.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • She's been on a whirlwind press tour since, appearing on late night and morning talk shows alike.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In season 2, her mother, in a whirlwind new romance, war-dials her all day.
    — Joyce Eng, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
  • The final crush of the trade deadline typically takes on a whirlwind pace.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The melodies are subtly beefier, and the whirlwind flights of technical death-metal wizardry get breathers.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The model has had a whirlwind 24 hours while promoting the launch of her new skincare line, Rhode.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2022
  • The pair ended up going home together that night, kicking off a romance that was less whirlwind than maelstrom.
    — Matthew Dessem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Garner married his wife, Lois Clarke, after a whirlwind two-week romance.
    — Julie Tremaine, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The whirlwind day was a microcosm of the 19-year-old’s bustling, prolific career.
    — Air Mail, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And 2025 might have been the most whirlwind campaign of his four-year tenure in Charlotte.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2026
  • That visit to the opera house — the real one that inspired the story — was the middle stop on my whirlwind month of Phantom sightings.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Adulation and influence ensued, but At the Gates’ whirlwind first phase was coming to an end.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Blake Lively closed out her whirlwind year with a rare photo of her family holiday festivities at home.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • After days of whirlwind weather, Chicagoans can expect to see conditions mellow out this week — but April showers aren’t over quite yet.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Iranian filmmakers have had whirlwind awards seasons before.
    — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And since the film’s debut at Cannes last month (which earned it a 12-minute ovation), the pair, along with their cast, have been on a whirlwind promotional tour.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 June 2022
  • Roberts and Guadagnino in particular bonded during the whirlwind 28-day shoot.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In her imagery, all-white banquet rooms are calm before the storm, students in tiaras and shimmering suits pose in front of fairy lights, and dance floors light up with the whirlwind energy of the night.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In 2018, Davidson had a whirlwind five-month romance with pop star Ariana Grande.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The two were, of course, involved in a whirlwind six-week relationship that by her account included about 15 days in each other’s company.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Hayes is twenty years old, on a whirlwind world tour, and creating the band’s second album, but pursues Soléne for a simple lunch that quickly turns into a love affair.
    — Haruka Iwasaki, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • On a whirlwind European tour, Eilish talks frankly about loneliness and feeling disconnected from her friends back home.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But there is something about sandwiches, their versatility and their portability that can’t be beat during these whirlwind summer months.
    — Chelsea Zwieg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2017

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