WHIRLWIND


Meaning of WHIRLWIND in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

whirlwind romance (= one that happens very suddenly and quickly )

Michelle married him after a whirlwind romance .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

romance

It was a whirlwind romance , all right, and nobody could talk any sense into Freda.

They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she'd started hinting for a ring.

She was introduced to Harry last summer by her younger sister, Michelle, and married him after a whirlwind romance .

But at Eindhoven the organisation was unable to prevent fraternisation between the two sides leaping from mutual suspicion into whirlwind romance .

tour

Find out what happened overleaf A whirlwind tour of Sixties fashion.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A black whirlwind , they fill the air with the click of leathery wings as they spiral through the trees.

Caring for a new baby is a breathless whirlwind , leaving no time for reassessment of self.

From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work.

In the early days it was seen as bringing a whirlwind of well-paid high-technology jobs to an area of record unemployment.

Living in Manhattan is such a whirlwind .

She moved round the flat like a whirlwind , and in minutes she was in her light raincoat.

Sophie saw through the whirlwind from the very start.

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