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How to pronounce “whirl”
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Pronunciation guide for whirl
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of whirl with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t 16 minutes
This guy decided he would go down to the Amazon and give it a whirl,
- Definition summary
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce whirl
Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t 16 minutes

This guy decided he would go down to the Amazon and give it a whirl,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “whirl”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- [Noun]
- An act of whirling.
- Something that whirls, such as a whirlwind.
- A confused tumult.
- A rapid series of events.
- Dizziness or giddiness.
- (informal) (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.
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