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
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
In another corner, there's a vast Catherine wheel that visitors will be able to spin.
From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2013
The first Catherine wheel will be lit in roughly 100 days' time, 200 tops.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2012
As if any one would expect him to have a burning Catherine wheel in his button-hole.
From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
