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
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
The first Catherine wheel will be lit in roughly 100 days' time, 200 tops.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2012
Zounds! how she fidgets and spits about like a Catherine wheel.
From She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith, Oliver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
