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
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
The first Catherine wheel will be lit in roughly 100 days' time, 200 tops.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2012
"Beg pardon; thought he was," cried Harlequin Ratcliffe, as, carried away by his feelings or the force of habit, he threw what tumblers call "a Catherine wheel," and made a rapid exit.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
