spindled

past tense of spindle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spindled
Verb
  • Station 113 races to rescue the man impaled by the railing atop the water tower that was built in the late 1800s and was expanded to four stories in the 1890s to accommodate fire-fighting water tanks.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Lucas and Simone had been tasked with holding and then removing a protruding piece of a forklift metal prong impaled in a construction worker’s abdomen.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Like the other eight couples who were killed, they were found shot and stabbed in their cars.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As president of the United States, he was stabbed in the heart with a letter opener by a septuagenarian cuckold.
    Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Reed received help from his stablemate Bron Breakker, who speared everyone in his path, including Jimmy Uso through the barricade.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Reed and Breakker picked up a win after Breakker speared Jey and Jimmy through a table, and Reed hit a tsunami on Jey for the pinfall.
    Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The two teams faced off again on Sunday, and once again, the Birds pecked Kansas City, this time in a three-point victory.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Long before Robert Altman’s The Player skewered 90s-era Hollywood, The Bad and the Beautiful was the industry’s great poison-pen letter to itself.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • From the 1960s through the 2000s, no one skewered a crowd with sharper affection.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The moon is covered with about 10 meters of regolith, a mix of dust, ash and rocks punctured by craters and boulders—not pristine landing pads.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Your skin was punctured by an outside cat.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a post on X, Massie jabbed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for his lack of support over the bill.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Frantic customers are seen watching the chaotic scene unfold and fleeing, with some tumbling to the ground after seemingly being jabbed.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier this year, a New Jersey man who was visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • As such, there is never any shortage of stories about enamored tourists being gored by bison in Yellowstone, and there have been at least two so far this year.
    Kassondra Cloos, Outside, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Spindled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindled. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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