While historically this debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now accumulating vast quantities of plastic and marine debris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vortex of 80,000 Nikes] Reference

Marcus Eriksen: The size of the gyre is the entire garbage patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth & Sky Podcast] Reference

He Mindcalled the gyre, suddenly anxious to feel the bird's familiar weight on his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word] Reference

This rotating pattern, known as a gyre, occurs as a result of the clockwise winds that typically occur in this region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Ocean] Reference

QUOTATION: Turning and turning in the widening gyre.    From Wordnik.com.  [W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)] Reference

Unmistakably, Vivacia was at the center of its gyre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Destiny]

"The penalty of blood need not be onerous," Kurrel - gyre murmured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

Stile returned to Neysa and sat beside her, Kurrel - gyre trailing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

This time Stile donned Neysa's socks, while Kurrel - gyre assumed man-form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

It spun in stately revolution, as solemn and uncaring as a planet in its gyre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

Just say no to choking sea turtles and growing the Pacific gyre garbage island.    From Wordnik.com.  [John DeCock: Creating a Long, Lasting Legacy of....Dog Poop?] Reference

Kurrel - gyre did not pause to hunt, and Neysa never grazed despite Stile's urgings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

Nor was he a young one, but simply a man in essence, a man freed of the gyre of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

But he had never seen anything nearly as chilling as what lay ahead of him in the gyre.    From Wordnik.com.  [PACIFIC OCEAN PLASTIC STEW ( BPA ) STILL ENDANGERING HUMANS] Reference

The king made the announcement at a national meeting in the royal cattle gyre at Luzidzini.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

When he recognizes one as his former lover, the ever deepening gyre of emotions and ideas spins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Actress Kate Winslet Struggles With Making The Reader, The Nazi Era and Oscar Buzz] Reference

The gyre circled in guard-fashion above the first, protecting it as it tried to come in to land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

He sent another inquiring thought at Vree, but the gyre had no more to report than the last time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

To view all comments: the spinning gyre by William Whitten on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 2: 59: 51 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specter is an opportunist--he holds inconsistent political stances, but then so has Obama.] Reference

Continental borders cause these currents to develop an almost closed circular pattern called a gyre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean circulation] Reference

Argo had joined the gyre of matter here, which swung about True Center at one-thousandth light speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furious Gulf]

In the Southern Hemisphere, these gyre systems do not develop because of the lack of constraining land masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean circulation] Reference

The interannual variability of oceanic CO2 parameters in the northeast Atlantic subtropical gyre at the ESTOC site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean acidification] Reference

So we won't be giving this to collect oil in the gulf, eliminate the plastic gyre or some other current issue in the news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron Sinclair: Sports Micro-Venture Fund Opens: With $500K on the Line, Are You Game?] Reference

If you wanted to get right on top of a gyre at sea or know exactly where it skirted a shoreline you'd need the hard charts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gyre and Gimble] Reference

If you know where the gyre is in the ocean you drop a bottle in it and the bottle shows up on the beach down the gyre some day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gyre and Gimble] Reference

Each ocean basin has a large gyre located at approximately 30° North and one at 30° South latitude in the subtropical regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean circulation] Reference

The gyre samples were collected by Eriksen and Cummins during Algalita MRF's 2008 voyage across 4,000 miles of the North Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa Kaas Boyle: Media Catches the Boat to Pacific Garbage Patch] Reference

Kurrel-gyre, was in exile because he had refused to slay his aging sire in the werewolf way, and things were in disarray already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phaze Doubt]

His career path is as good a symbol as any of the rise and fall of the GOP hegemony-and the ever-turning gyre of American politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knowing When The Party's Over] Reference

The horses milled for a moment, turning in a slow gyre round Jamie as directions were decided, rendezvous appointed, farewells taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fiery Cross]

The gyre came down from his protective circle above them in a steep dive, braking to a claws-out landing on the top of one of the stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

Three ocean currents (the East Icelandic Current, the Coastal Current and the Irminger Current) move in a clockwise gyre around the island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iceland Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference