A tornado's whirling winds.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"I call the whirling winds to cease, depart from her, from us, in peace," Liz said, putting as much force into her words as she could.    From Wordnik.com.  [License Invoked]

He turned on the other with his sword whirling round his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Lovers] Reference

Suffice it that in another second he was galloping full tilt down the valley with his sword whirling furiously overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference

My Krumphau - the move where you spring to the side and send your sword whirling down into the space you occupied - is broken!.    From Wordnik.com.  [zornhau: Old men can't spring..] Reference

When they saw the bright sword whirling through the air and heard these bellowings, uttering cries of fear, those poor folk fled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin of the Sun] Reference

But Time in whirling flight departed us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

A normally operating drive will make a smooth "whirling" sound as is spins up or down.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

Winds aren't as strong as it has been forecasted, but I suppose they are kind of whirling, which increases tremor plots.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

He sat in a kind of whirling tempest of books and papers, and he rode absorbedly in the whirlwind and majestically directed the storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queed] Reference

In the whirling is a dancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference

Next came a kind of whirling blackness and I woke up here. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahatma and the Hare] Reference

A boom shook the ship, had them all whirling landward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perish The Thought] Reference

And me in a bikini, onscreen, whirling a typewriter cartridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [You and Rick Okasec] Reference

Head whirling, like the bird in the sky that was never there ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference

 I am a whirling mess of extended metaphor and impulse snacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Letters to Closed Caskets] Reference

He imagined himself a whirling body in space, ready to fly apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arlene] Reference

At times, it is like watching a carnival of whirling, swirling ghosts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke and Mirrors] Reference

After a while I turn to look at Ellen through the whirling net of bees.    From Wordnik.com.  [See?] Reference

Like a car's solenoid, the whirling hot star generates a magnetic field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debut Of A Mighty Magnetar] Reference

She sprints onto the court, smiling and waving and whirling as she goes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Passion Of A Champion] Reference

So, down the slope came Nirvana to 13, into the pond, then whirling to the bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days Of Wonder] Reference

There are various descriptions of this installation whirling about; here are three.    From Wordnik.com.  [New orb sculpture coming to Nationals Park] Reference

Amusement parks are famous for their odd animals, whirling rides and tempting foods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bikini Busters] Reference

 It starts: thoughts whirling, attention scattered, my mind is a safe-haven for chaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Writing] Reference

From a whirling vortex circling the swarm-cluster comes the pulsing roar of beating wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [See?] Reference

It's in the bouncing melodies and the whirling rhythms of many of the city's soul and funky.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans' Marching Bands Short on Funds] Reference

In any situation, take your focus off the whirling world around you and turn inward for a few moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tara Sophia Mohr: Cultivating the Great Love] Reference

And then the pause, before the great whirling racket of gongs and oscillators and clocks and a violin and laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll] Reference

Baritone Sergei Leiferkus says the maestro embodies contemporary Russia: a whirling, chaotic, unsteady stream of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall Arts Preview: Gergiev Goes Global] Reference

One pilot told reporters that gravel kicked up by whirling blades causes dents that could distort the aircraft's aerodynamics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apache's Battle Test] Reference

           A dark world of death and hatred opened up behind her, demons 'faces whirling, ecstatic with immortal pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Division by Zero] Reference

Merry-go-rounds, where kids kept whirling "until they threw up," could also trap children underneath, says Beckwith, so they're out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playgrounds Of The Future: They Ain't Got Swing] Reference

The whirling winds create sandstorms and electrical disturbances that cause havoc to man and material and reduce visibility to zero.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We'll Win, But...'] Reference

Michaele, a hugging, air-kissing whirling dervish, mingles with Edwina Rogers, an overdressed lobbyist in a red dress and black headdress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who are these women?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#1, Aug. 5)] Reference