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.
She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.
From Salon
The marriage’s past spools out with such clarity that what they have for breakfast becomes ominous.
From Los Angeles Times
Nile, though, is unencumbered by empathy, guilt, or the urge for compromise, a mile-long bunting of red flags spooled into one cashmere-clad creep.
From Salon
A pinched approximation of a muted trumpet suggests some kind of mutant jazz unfolding nearby, while unpredictable pitch changes conjure visions of a tape slipping off a spool.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
