spindle

Example Sentences

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Long processions of women, many of them bearing a takli or spindle to honour Gandhi's commitment to homespun khadi cloth, take over Bombay's streets, quite literally pushing men to the very margins.

From BBC

They lived by their spindle, loom or needle, or they leveraged textiles by pawning them or even renting them out.

From Washington Post

In the same study, Friedrich and her colleagues also found that babies’ ability to lump objects into categories correlated with an EEG feature during naps called sleep spindles: fast bursts of electrical activity.

From Washington Post

Tranquilino Gabriel — it is a common last name here — is turning out decorative wood spindles on a primitive lathe.

From Seattle Times

He makes “silver spindle” audible, gleaming through an orchestra that has long known him and he, it.

From Los Angeles Times