How to use "maelstrom" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "maelstrom" in popular movie and book plots

  • The tsunami engulfs the car, shatters the windows and traps the pair in a chaotic underwater maelstrom filled with debris.  - The Wave (2015 film)
  • Dormer calls Quinn to secure their deal, and Quinn asks him to demonstrate the machine's capabilities, so he and Gill create a maelstrom around the academy, wreaking havoc.  - Seeds (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
  • The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.  - Service (film)
  • Caught in the ensuing maelstrom are sly matriarch Augusta Pilaster, rich heir Solly Greenbourne and slum girl Maisie Robinson.  - A Dangerous Fortune
  • While crossing the ocean, the fleet is caught in a maelstrom that is really a gate to the Star Kingdoms.  - Into the Maelstrom (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • Nix, the Hierarch of Entropy, wants the player characters' help to rid the multiverse of the malignant maelstrom that threatens all of space and time.  - The Immortal Storm (module)
  • The result is a witty, pointed tale of humble but outspoken Franciscan friar and his wondrous escapades in the boiling maelstrom of a mythical Latin American dictatorship.  - Father Hilary's Holiday
  • Slug and Slagg are unable to escape the maelstrom and as they do not appear again, it's safe to assume that they sink to the bottom and drown.  - The Journey to Melonia
  • A wild romp marks the second vision of the twenty-something life of Christopher as he tries to escape an artistic maelstrom and finds himself face to face with the love he had for a brief moment and lost from the first vision.  - Illusion (2004 film)
  • This role becomes a double-edged sword for our young heroine, who is sucked into a maelstrom of vicious gang wars, hair-raising assassination attempts and ruthless power struggles and betrayals.  - Mob Sister
  • They rescue a gaggle of spoiled princesses, wage war on a guerrilla gorilla, and escape from a mocking maelstrom before getting on the wrong side of an evil alien band.  - Chorus Skating
  • Knowing that they can never live happily together as a normal couple, she ignites the lighter causing the theater to go up in a maelstrom of flame killing Fujichiyo and Jiya.  - The Human Vapor
  • After trading blows over how Cowlquape's vision for unity amongst all never came to pass, Vox explains his reason for summoning the librarians: a dark maelstrom is mere days away, and its strike will wipe out Undertown and any who remain.  - Vox (novel)
  • A number of wizards, hoping to tap into Tualua's massive powers, attempt to pass through this maelstrom and reach the castle.  - The Changing Land
  • From the swirling maelstrom of boxer shorts, we cut to a solitary king-size gentleman, alone in the frame, with his arms up, his pants gone and his chubby pale legs peeking out from gleaming white shorts: "I've been robbed.  - You're Darn Tootin'
  • It was the pit — the maelstrom — the ultimate abomination.  - The Unnamable (short story)
  • Dissolution has gone global, there is no escape, but by the final credits the heroes have made their peace with the Burning World, the maelstrom in which they will live and die.  - Midnight Lamp
  • It features a map of the Demonweb Pits, a series of interweaving passageways through a maelstrom of lost souls in the Abyss.  - Queen of the Demonweb Pits
  • In a Kafkaesque maelstrom of terrifying confusion and utter insanity, this man must attempt to follow his mission directives of conducting an "on-the-spot investigation.  - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
  • Emily arrives to find a swirling maelstrom where the tank had been.  - Altered States
  • Yet he finds himself drawn by love and humanity back into the world of colonial New Zealand and the maelstrom of the Māori Wars, not altogether disagreeably, as he finds to his surprise.  - Season of the Jew
  • The room turns into a maelstrom and after a violent chase, Bigger claims the life of the animal with an iron skillet and terrorizes Vera with the dead rodent.  - Native Son

Example sentences for "maelstrom" in interesting articles

  • He began to bring a manual typewriter into sessions with patients, typing up every word they said in a maelstrom of clicks and clacks.  - Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (2012)
  • Please try again later. You are already subscribed to this email. View all New York Times newsletters. See Sample Manage Email Preferences Not you? Privacy Policy When puberty’s chemical maelstrom began at about 10, though, Quintn got into fights at school because, he said, other children were insulting his mother.  - Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School
  • But what predicts who will last through the maelstrom of middle age and be there for the silver age of friendship?Whether people hold onto their old friends or grow apart seems to come down to dedication and communication.  - How Friendships Change Over Time (2015)
  • That was a good call, as always, BR.)But that's not what this should all be about, if by "all," I mean the maelstrom kicked up by Thayer.  - A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013
  • Waiting still longer will mean entering the maelstrom of reproductive technology, which seems likely to remain expensive, alienating, and prone to complications.  - The Coming Death Shortage

Meaning of "maelstrom" in English

  • a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

Meaning of "maelstrom" in Hindi

  • भंवर ( Bhanvar, bhanwar)
  • भँवर ( Bhanvar, bhanwar)
  • उथल-पुथल ( Uthal-puthal)
  • भँवर

Synonyms of "maelstrom"

  • vortex
  • whirlpool

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