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The word "gyrate" is often employed to evoke a sense of revolving or circular motion, whether describing the graceful movements of dancers or the literal spinning of physical objects. In some texts it illustrates a spirited performance on stage or in social settings, as characters whirl about with energy [1, 2, 3]. In other works it captures the rhythmic rotation of natural elements or even the measured circulation of scientific phenomena [4, 5, 6]. Additionally, the term is sometimes used in a metaphorical manner to suggest the turning of abstract ideas or the dynamic shifts in conversation [7, 8, 9], showcasing its versatility in literary expression.
  1. He may yet serve the state with laudable devotion; he may yet enchant his millions; he may yet posture and gyrate before the world as a man of mark.
    — from Prejudices, First Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
  2. As long as the lady seated on the chair in the centre pleases, the gentlemen are to gyrate round her.
    — from The Italians: A Novel by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot
  3. He then took off his boots and his coat, and standing on his toes he commenced to gyrate with extraordinary rapidity.
    — from The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
  4. It could gyrate in a spiral, or spin on its axis in a rectilinear path like a rifled bullet.
    — from Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
  5. Around the ovary and the uterus, the endocrines gyrate as the planets around the sun.
    — from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman
  6. By Law the Planets gyrate in their orbits; by some approach to Law the street-cabs ply in their thoroughfares."
    — from Fresh Fields by John Burroughs
  7. In such manner did the current of her talk gyrate and turn corners.
    — from Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett
  8. Trust, confidence, reliance, assurance, faith. Turn, revolve, rotate, spin, whirl, gyrate.
    — from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
  9. Everything about him is involved in I know not what whirlpool of his ideas, and even his mistress must gyrate along with them.
    — from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by HonorĂ© de Balzac

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