Catherine wheel
Example Sentences
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Set to Carl Orff’s dramatic score, the production includes a giant moving Catherine wheel and a live chorus seated on a floating platform above the stage.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022
Like Frances, she sizzles and sparkles like a human Catherine wheel, but beneath the delirium is a whiff of despair.
From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2015
We think: is this going to be another misfire; an exploding Catherine wheel scorching the bark off a tree; a toppled rocket screaming horizontally into the laburnums followed by the awful yelping of a dog?
From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014
LiVolsi pointed to what looked like a whipping Catherine wheel, with spikes that spurted powder into paper packets, 50 blurring past in every second.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2014
George retired to prepare for dinner, and Marna to settle the baby for the night, and Kate went on with the preparations for the meal, while her thoughts revolved like a Catherine wheel.
From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
