wheels within wheels

Example Sentences

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At first glance a standard crime story, the novel is “a more piercing tale of investigation, one revealing how the mind drives on its own ‘wheels within wheels,’” wrote our reviewer.

From New York Times

“There are so many wheels within wheels right now. I have never seen anything like it.”

From New York Times

As walls are directed into place simultaneously in clockwise and counterclockwise directions, the sense of a city in conspiratorial motion — of a metropolis of wheels within wheels — is conveyed.

From Washington Post

What's more, since Nibiru is said to have last passed this way just 3,500 years ago — barely an hour by cosmic standards — the solar system would not remotely have had time to rearrange itself into the orderly pattern of orbital wheels within wheels that exists today and has in fact existed for billions of years.

From Time

“This slice comes from before the records of time began,” I said, stopping so my words could spread through the room in the same way, and so the wheels within wheels of her simulated thoughts could spread through the network of machines that are her interface with the world.

From Nature