Vessels of all kinds drifted aimlessly about, wrecking each other, and covering the boiling maelstrom of the harbor with their debris. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The Obamas are about to get drawn into this maelstrom as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Couples Campaign] Reference
What would it be like to view that maelstrom from a nearby system?. From Wordnik.com. [The SF Fanatic: SF Explores The Ideas Mainstream Fiction Won't] Reference
My other chip from the maelstrom was a lad half grown. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Tenements] Reference
What one historian has called a maelstrom of retaliation and counter-retaliation built to a howling crescendo. From Wordnik.com. [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – February – 19] Reference
Behind us some kind of maelstrom danced and sucked, but we had escaped it and were even now rowing steadily away from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
At the center of the maelstrom is the ethically challenged Colonel Tigh, the show’s biggest hawk and best character. From Wordnik.com. [Going ‘Galactic’] Reference
Definition for "maelstrom" provided by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. From Wordnik.com. [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference
Soon the entire theatre is in the midst of this maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Nansi] Reference
But he may also once again be placing himself in the maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Death Be Not Proud At The Court] Reference
Once again you're dealing with the maelstrom of ethnic cleansing. From Wordnik.com. [‘It Sits On Your Conscience’] Reference
They are the little things in the confused maelstrom of human endeavor. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Surely only madmen or fiends would fight in such an elemental maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The rapt baby Brian laughed and with a child's breath created a maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [I didn't know Nostradamus played in McNamara's band (Novel - excerpt)] Reference
Biver is a human maelstrom of energy, whom I have known for almost 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [Characters Make The Brand] Reference
The greatness of America is almost unrecognizable in the resulting maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [The Sounds Of Silence] Reference
I wanted to plunge one of them into a moral maelstrom that would test them in a way. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Spencer's Small-Town Maelstrom] Reference
They waited, waited, circling about in a gray maelstrom until the grave sucked them in. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
Excerpts: ZAKARIA: Why did you decide to plunge into the maelstrom of Egyptian politics?. From Wordnik.com. [RACHID MOHAMED RACHID] Reference
In this maelstrom of seeming destruction I lost all grip, had no will, was at sea mentally. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
So the whole thing is a great churning maelstrom story, and I must say, I'm enjoying it all. From Wordnik.com. [Tabloid's Eavesdropping Has British Ears Burning] Reference
Horace finds hope, Sizer says, in the great maelstrom of ideas circulating in the past few years. From Wordnik.com. [The Jargon Jungle] Reference
How do the administration's nation-builders think elections are going to be held in this maelstrom?. From Wordnik.com. [A LETHAL IDEA STILL LIVES] Reference
Such a question has thrown American law enforcement and national security agencies into a maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Neetu Mahil: Re-channeling the Energy of Homegrown Terrorists] Reference
As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. From Wordnik.com. [Katrina plus five] Reference
His head was swimming in a hot maelstrom of pain, but it was quieting as his breathing returned to normal. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
The two advanced toward the spreading marquee which appeared to be the center of the mild social maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
It is easy, in the midst of the maelstrom of opinions, to lose sight of what is directly in front of us - Emma. From Wordnik.com. [Ariane Zurcher: Out of the Woods] Reference
In the maelstrom of rhetoric that swirls around the Middle East the warnings of Hezbollah should ring alarm bells. From Wordnik.com. [James Denselow: Assad's Lebanese Return] Reference
So, maybe there is a silver lining somewhere in this mad maelstrom over an Islamic community center in New York City. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Smucker: Beck and Gerecht Call for Spanish Inquisition, American-style] Reference
His topic isn't just the untrustworthiness of perception and perspective itself, but the oppressiveness of the maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that del Valle described his announcement as a moment of frankness in the mayoral maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Miguel Del Valle Announces Bid For Mayor; Joins Dock Walls And Chris Cooper] Reference
None of the passengers could help the man, none of the crew dared jump to his rescue, no boat could live in such a maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
Ashley Judd is in every way believable as we watch her character sink deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of terror and loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Smigelski: Helen: Film Review & Interview with Ashley Judd] Reference
It would seem an impossibility for any two living things as relatively weak and soft as men to find a way through such a maelstrom. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
The currents resulting are dangerous to navigation, and there are numerous whirlpools and eddies besides the great maelstrom itself. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
In the end, it was only Blair's departure and the economic maelstrom of 2008 that allowed Brown and Mandelson to bury their vendetta. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Man by Peter Mandelson] Reference
Ships have had their masts bodily twisted out of them, and many, more unfortunate, have been ingulfed in the maelstrom created by its fury. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
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