spindle

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

Words become a texture of stasis, as when “winding” and “whirring” are repeated multiple times to describe Thorn Rose’s climb to the turret where she finds the fatal spindle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

A new company was found, the fabrication truly European: spindle from the Czech Republic, cables and curved glass from Italy, capsules from France, the main structure from the Netherlands.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025

Previously believed to consist of a compact structure attaching to multiple spindle microtubules, it was instead revealed that the centromere consists of two subdomains.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024

Hollister pulled a piece of twine from a spindle attached to his counter while Emily rearranged more magnetic words.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

"This finding suggests that sleep spindles play an important role in the consolidation of complex associations, which underlie the completion of memories of whole events," says Professor Luciana Besedovsky, lead researcher of the study.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

Normal spindles have two ends, known as spindle poles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

Muller and his colleagues found that rotating wave patterns called spindles that occur during non-REM sleep – when our brains, breathing and heart rate slow – could enable plasticity required for storing memories during sleep.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

I pushed some logs away and saw spokes and spindles.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

And the baseball imagination has been staggered, stretched, folded, spindled and mutilated for generations.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2017

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

The two things spindled upward, side by side, yet separately, in his mental vision; then they twisted and twined themselves together.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

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

Then, even more than today, the citizenry instinctively loathed the computer and its injunctions against folding, spindling and mutilating.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spindling operator without hesitation walked over to him and laid his hand on the man’s shoulder.

From The Mountain Divide by Both, Armand