How to Use spinning wheel in a Sentence

spinning wheel

noun
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  • Will the spinning wheel stop on big money or the joker?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The Earth is sort of like an astronaut with a spinning wheel.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The 360-degree spinning wheels, which make the suitcase easy to glide through airports, come off with just the push of a button.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Bring along your spinning wheel, drop spindle, knitting or current craft project and a sack lunch, and join us for the day.
    — Mary Mooney, OregonLive.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The event will also feature tarot card readers and a spinning wheel of cocktails.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Treadles, or foot levers, made their debut in the Middle Ages to power looms and spinning wheels.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Visitors are first met with a spinning wheel that enables them to win coupons of up to $200 that can be used to load up their shopping carts.
    — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Cake is an Apple Watch case that looks a lot like a smaller version of the Rabbit R1, complete with a spinning wheel.
    — Rhett Jones / Gizmodo, Quartz, 31 May 2024
  • The series riffs on a game show, with a spinning wheel that determines which challenge El-Waylly will take on.
    — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Nuzzo got up, but O’Malley backed him into the cage with a right side-kick and finished him with a gyroscope-quick, spinning wheel-kick.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Keep in mind that small spinning wheels can get caught on hair, so make sure your kiddos keep their remote control cars away from their long strands.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Parents, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Depending on the mouse, though, a free-spinning wheel may also bring an annoying buzzing noise, too.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • That's a free-spinning wheel, and that type of movement is helpful for flying through long documents, websites, spreadsheets, and the like.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The machines feature spinning wheels, sounds and animations, along with a small screen to display the replays.
    — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The sleek bag is easy to pack up and go, thanks to its compact design, sleek outer shell, and multi-directional spinning wheels.
    — Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
  • Remember, this thing doesn't need much energy for a mere spinning wheel.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 12 June 2018
  • Fiesta medal features both a spinning wheel of bread slices and an image of Safety Sally.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 29 June 2021
  • This unique 13-piece kit allows your preschooler to set up an entire water system, with pipes of different shapes and sizes, and even a spinning wheel.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The spacecrafts’ gyroscopes are small spinning wheels that work to rotate the telescope and keep it stable while observing.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2018
  • In the corner of the frame, viewers can spot a spinning wheel, a reference to another fairytale, Sleeping Beauty.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Gane connected on a spinning wheel kick midway through the round, but Ngannou continued his slow plod forward.
    — Nolan King, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Equipped with four full-rotational, 360-degree spinning wheels, this luggage aced our tests.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In this case, a synchronous condenser is a spinning wheel whose running amount of kinetic energy evens off the amount of current flowing from a source into the grid.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020
  • This solution was so alien that the scientist running the spinneret (the device that spins the liquid polyamides into fibers, like a spinning wheel making thread) was afraid Kwolek’s stuff would break their machine.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The experiments revealed that not only did the gobies’ fin nerves fire when the spinning wheel touched them, but that the pattern of nerve activity corresponded to the speed the wheel was spinning and the spacing of the ridges.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Farther inside, an old-fashioned spinning wheel and a desktop computer with its keyboard.
    — Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The formats have featured inversions of the field with the number determined by a spinning wheel, mandatory green flag pit stops, and even qualifying held with no speed limits on pit road.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The Trumps visited for about fifteen minutes, just long enough to hang a garland around a portrait of the Mahatma and admire a charkha, or spinning wheel, of the kind that Gandhi used to produce his own yarn as part of a boycott of British textiles.
    — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
  • In the log cabin, which will be festively decorated, there will be storytelling from Brilliant Detroit, book giveaways, spinning wheel demos and more.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Essentially a large tube with a single camera, Kepler relied on four reaction wheels (spinning wheels to orient the spacecraft) to point at specific patches of the sky for days or even weeks on end.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2019

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