Object

• mist: At night, swirling mist reveals glimpses of its shadowy past.

• cloud: But they are still tiny sparks in swirling gray clouds.

• round: Blues, greens, reds, swirling round my field of vision in a kaleidoscope of color.

Converse of object

• watch: Sit by fire with coffee and watch the snow swirl around outside.

Adjective modifier

• white: A northerly sweeps the frozen plain lifting the silent snow in white swirls.

Modifies a noun

• mark: The above photo shows these ' swirl marks ' close up.

• pot: Alternatively another option would be to use an external swirl pot which is a little more complicated.

• round: Chemical reeks filled the car as we rolled down the windows to allow the heat to swirl round a bit.

Modifying Another Word

• gently: You can help this process by gently swirling the bottle but DO NOT SHAKE.

• about: After a picnic there was a grim steep climb up to an exposed ridge with clouds of fine rain swirling about.

• away: Then the pike dropped off, swirling away from the sudden indignity in a great huff of silt.

Noun used with modifier

• chocolate: It was a two tiered Dark Belgian Chocolate cake covered in white chocolate swirls.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: Common examples are wind and water swirling around obstructions, or fast flow of any sort.

• down: CU to shot of water swirling down drain of drinking fountain.

Preposition: of

• cream: Add salt and pepper to taste and a swirl of cream to garnish.

• cloud: The satellite picture shows the swirl of cloud around the low with frontal cloud just reaching North Wales.

• smoke: So Tim lit more matches and we watched the swirls of smoke in vain.

• wind: Swirls of warm wind raised small clouds of dust.

• color: Michael Andrews's previously unexhibited Portrait of Roger Daltrey shows the lead singer of The Who caught in a swirl of color.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: Murray's narrator has a horrific time: There was black water swirling around my feet.