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spindle

[spin-dl] / ˈspɪn dl /




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They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

From re-creating each staircase spindle to replicating 19th-century windows, a relocated Queen Anne gets a family-friendly update that honors its past.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2026

Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, provided expertise in comparative genomics and mitotic spindle geometry and biophysics, respectively.

From Science Daily May 22, 2024

While the candy was still soft, I pushed a glass rod into it—borrowed from Miss Riley’s lab supplies—forming a spindle hole.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

“I could’ve just gone online to Home Depot, cut their spindles in half and thrown them up on the porch,” Cain said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The team hit a speed bump with the Blair House’s front porch spindles, which had been removed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 5, 2026

University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2024

Brass spindles curled into balconies, and small elevators toted visitors to and from the levels.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Matted in dead leaves, it wound past snatches of green fern that spindled down the hillsides.

From Washington Post Feb. 26, 2022

The illusions in two-dimensional imagery are contradicted by flat surfaces that he’s folded, spindled and otherwise mutilated.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2018

This enterprise came about prior to Purdue being juridically spindled into creating an abuse proof reformulation.

From Salon Dec. 30, 2015

Edwin Jackson folded, spindled and mutilated his former team in the 's home opener — an impressive feat even if those Rays are 0-6 with a .146 team batting average.

From Chicago Tribune Apr. 7, 2011

His pathetic little legs spindled down from the smart new trousers, and his hands dangled weakly from his thin wrists, albeit his fingers clung tightly to his toy balloon.

From The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

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

At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

If the weak and spindling shoots are allowed to grow they will draw away the strength from the roots, to the injury of the crop.

From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by F. M. Hexamer




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