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
And the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia will spin like a Catherine wheel in the grave.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2016
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
While we were eating, two or three little lizards with tails curiously twirled round and round, like a St. Catherine wheel, made themselves friendly, and ate pieces of bread from our hands without fear.
From Pieces of Eight by Le Gallienne, Richard
