Catherine wheel
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Set to Carl Orff’s dramatic score, the production includes a giant moving Catherine wheel and a live chorus seated on a floating platform above the stage.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
And the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia will spin like a Catherine wheel in the grave.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2016
LiVolsi pointed to what looked like a whipping Catherine wheel, with spikes that spurted powder into paper packets, 50 blurring past in every second.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2014
In another corner, there's a vast Catherine wheel that visitors will be able to spin.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
The world, on fire, turned like a monstrous Catherine wheel within his brain.
From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood
