spool

Example Sentences

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In the seesawing tedium of daily traffic, slow and fast, the e-motor silently and seamlessly supports the big V8 in those few hundred milliseconds it takes to spool up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

A spool of tens of kilometres of cable is fitted to the bottom of a drone and the physical fibre optic cord is attached to the controller held by the pilot.

From BBC • May 28, 2025

I had seen him earlier walking around the backyard wielding a weed wacker, which turned out to need a new spool of trimmer string.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024

He tied a spool of fishing line to the handle and lowered the can down a pipe leading from the roof.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx