noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
whirl
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Some of them were whirling round like dervishes .
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The whirling dervishes , though often the face of Sufism in the West, represent only one school.
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These creatures weren't children - they were whirling dervishes !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Auguste was a dervish in the centre of a whirlpool.
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I have told you I am half a dervish .
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Some of them were whirling round like dervishes.
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The dervish gyrating on his axis echoes the rotation of the earth and taps the sources of creative vibration.
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The whirling dervishes, though often the face of Sufism in the West, represent only one school.
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Trepolov had some sense of decency and didn't go attacking the ball like some damned dervish .
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We Israelites, the wandering heirs Of a bewildered dervish , are taught distrust in prayer.