squirrel cage
Example Sentences
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The animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the girl whirled around in a squirrel cage of pointless weekly and Sunday engagements who is oppressed and mastered by her lack of freedom.
From A Girl's Student Days and After by Woolley, Mary Emma
The whole blasted fort is acting like the squirrel cage in an induction motor!
From The Ultimate Weapon by McConnell, Gerald
He was in such a hurry that it seemed to her as though his feet hardly touched the ground; and he rushed right up to the squirrel cage.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Howard, Velma Swanston
