Crossword-Solution: WHORLS 6 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Auger-shell features 1 answer
Coillike shapes 1 answer
Fingerprint components 1 answer
Fingerprint lines 1 answer
Fingerprint markings 1 answer
Fingerprint parts 1 answer
Fingerprint ridges 1 answer
Fingerprint spirals 1 answer
Penmanship patterns 1 answer
Ridges on a print 1 answer
Fingerprint features 2 answers
Fingerprint patterns 2 answers
Coils 7 answers
A PRINT MADE BY AN IMPRESSION OF THE RIDGES IN THE SKIN OF A FINGER 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHORLS (5)

Now the same with the left.” “Come, Tarzan,” cried D’Arnot, “let’s see what your whorls look like.” Tarzan complied readily, asking many questions of the officer during the operation.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Now the whorl is in form like the whorl used on earth; and the description of it implied that there is one large hollow whorl which is quite scooped out, and into this is fitted another lesser one, and another, and another, and four others, making eight in all, like vessels which fit into one another; the whorls show their edges on the upper side, and on their lower side all together form one continuous whorl.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
The rich plushy, plumelike branches grow in regular whorls around the trunk, and on the topmost whorls, standing erect, are the large, beautiful cones.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995
The star-whorled, fan-spread branches droop under the soft wreaths--droop and press flatly to the trunk; presently the point of overloading is reached, there is a soft sough and muffled drooping, the boughs recover, and the weighting goes on until the drifts have reached the midmost whorls and covered up the branches.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008
Suddenly it began to rise in swift whorls, and the next I knew it was speeding eastward again till it became a speck in the blue morning.
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1996

Quotes with WHORLS (3)

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places. Even more astounding is our statistical improbability in physical terms. The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed so…
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our way up a narrow staircase. The bannister is a thick rope suggesting safety. The stairs go around and around inside a church tower; or perhaps it is a minaret? The whorls of the staircase grow narrower and narrower, but as there are so many people behind there is no longer any possibility of turning around or even stopping. The pressure from behind foeces me on. T…
Sven Lindqvist Exterminate All the Brutes: &, Desert Divers
Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves. Later he had come to perceive that of curves there was no end, and the true miracle was that poets, or writers, or whoever it was that was in charge of devising new words, could keep pace with those hectic geometers, and slap names on all the whorls and snarls in the pages of the Doctor's geometry-books.
Neal Stephenson
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1972–2016).