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

“You can tell it burned so hot. There are areas that are nothing but white ash and some little spindle trees. Just total devastation.”

From Los Angeles Times

The giant web is "the larval feeding web of a small moth called the spindle ermine", he said.

From BBC

In the wine region of northern San Joaquin Valley, the coarse spindles of pruned grapevines are sprouting delicate creepers that curl toward wire trellises, and cherry trees are shedding soft pink blossoms.

From Los Angeles Times

At issue were spindle motor designs used to spin the HDD disk and the base plate the disk sits in, the spokesman said.

From Reuters