spindling

Example Sentences

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Dior’s saddle bags, spindling stiletto heels, Tiffany & Co.’s heart-shaped charm bracelets — all visual elements of Paris Hilton’s “rich bitch” phenomenon — heralded a trend for brazen excess.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2017

Take private classes in felting, drop spindling, rug hooking, natural dyeing and basic weaving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 30, 2015

Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots are not necessarily the swiftest, that the spindling bat should be controlled not with the forearm, like a tennis racquet, but with the wrist.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings.

From Time Magazine Archive

The young ogresses were tall and spindling creatures, as slim as young giraffes.

From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Harrison, Constance Cary