gyratory
Example Sentences
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A traffic gyratory meant many pedestrians could only reach it by walking through murky subterranean walkways.
From BBC
As we settle in for lunch on the expansive farmhouse porch, Gibbs adjusts the angle of our table so that the view includes one of his favorite sculptures, George Rickey’s Column of Four Squares Excentric Gyratory III, whose gleaming silver plates swivel in the breeze.
These units off the Hanger Lane gyratory system – among 30 facilities on 19 different UK sites – manufacture hummus and other dips on an industrial scale for supermarket giants including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, the Co-op, Asda and Morrisons, who sell them under their own brands.
From The Guardian
Kinetic sculptor George Rickey’s Four Open Squares Horizontal Gyratory-Tapered is installed above the garden’s central pond; Long Island Buddha, a battered steel-and-copper Buddha head by Chinese artist Zhang Huan, sits on its shore.
From Architectural Digest
West Yorkshire Police said the nearby Armley Gyratory road had been closed.
From BBC
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