Sentence examples for vortex from inspiring English sources

From above, like a sea of iron filings pulled by a magnet, the whole city appears to crowd round a core, the vortex of pilgrims giving way to an equally swirling current of tower blocks.

Every city, it seems, wants to create the next Bilbao-Guggenheim-Gehry vortex.

This was then put into a vortex fluid device, where the tangled proteins were spun and gently pulled apart until they refolded into their proper structure.

The Toronto film festival, of which Midnight Madness is one of the programming strands, has achieved critical mass: a gravitational vortex that sucks in the Hollywood A-list, spits out Oscar-winners and facilitates galaxy-sized deals.

"The polar vortex itself has not moved south.

Colin Graves, the new chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, pitched up for his first day at the crease already feeling battered and bruised by the all‑encompassing Kevin Pietersen saga that threatens to suck the whole of the sport into its vortex.

So he did, only to be sucked into a vortex of form filling and humiliation familiar to anyone who's ever been embroiled in bureaucratic procedures.

At a time when political relations are soured by the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the British Council is needed most, it is now being sucked into the vortex of that affair.

In a disgusting-sounding experiment that you probably shouldn't try at home, an international team of researchers have used urea, one of the main components of urine, and a "vortex fluid device" to uncook a hen's egg.

CEI sued the White House last year because of a video linking a polar vortex which brought bitter cold to much of the US to climate change.

Meteorologists are adamant that the weather isn't because of the polar vortex, a giant upper air pattern that normally pens in cold air in the Arctic in the winter, but instead pushed in by an entirely different weather phenomenon more related to the remnants of a powerful typhoon.