whirlwind
/ˈ(h)wɝlwɪnd/ sustantivo C2En español: torbellino, tromba
- A windstorm of limited extent, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air.
- A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward. · Once he got that new scooter he turned into a whirlwind and damaged all the flowers.· The weeks leading up to the convention were a whirlwind of preparation and hurried activity.
Plural whirlwinds
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For the next sixty-nine evenings he would be dining in cheviot and worsted at dubious _table d’hôtes_, at whirlwind lunch counters, on sandwiches and beer in his hall-bedroom.
Anne, bursting into tears, rushed to the hall door, slammed it until the tins on the porch wall outside rattled in sympathy, and fled through the hall and up the stairs like a whirlwind.
There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.
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