spindle

They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Words become a texture of stasis, as when “winding” and “whirring” are repeated multiple times to describe Thorn Rose’s climb to the turret where she finds the fatal spindle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Long processions of women, many of them bearing a takli or spindle to honour Gandhi's commitment to homespun khadi cloth, take over Bombay's streets, quite literally pushing men to the very margins.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

One widely shared video shows a woman spinning yarn on a traditional hand spindle as a Kashmiri folk song plays in the background.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

While the candy was still soft, I pushed a glass rod into it—borrowed from Miss Riley’s lab supplies—forming a spindle hole.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The team hit a speed bump with the Blair House’s front porch spindles, which had been removed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Another is sleep spindles, brief bursts of rapid brain activity that are believed to help the brain strengthen and store memories.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

Without the protein, the parasites failed to build proper spindles, which prevented them from dividing correctly.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026

Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Nine balconies rim its perimeter, with gilded rails and oil-black spindles that curl along each floor and twist into the shape of Belle-roses.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

The illusions in two-dimensional imagery are contradicted by flat surfaces that he’s folded, spindled and otherwise mutilated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

And the baseball imagination has been staggered, stretched, folded, spindled and mutilated for generations.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2017

This enterprise came about prior to Purdue being juridically spindled into creating an abuse proof reformulation.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2015

Edwin Jackson folded, spindled and mutilated his former team in the 's home opener — an impressive feat even if those Rays are 0-6 with a .146 team batting average.

From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 7, 2011

His pathetic little legs spindled down from the smart new trousers, and his hands dangled weakly from his thin wrists, albeit his fingers clung tightly to his toy balloon.

From The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

Dior’s saddle bags, spindling stiletto heels, Tiffany & Co.’s heart-shaped charm bracelets — all visual elements of Paris Hilton’s “rich bitch” phenomenon — heralded a trend for brazen excess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017

Take private classes in felting, drop spindling, rug hooking, natural dyeing and basic weaving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2015

Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, even more than today, the citizenry instinctively loathed the computer and its injunctions against folding, spindling and mutilating.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her head was surmounted by a fashionable bonnet, spindling, and lofty, trimmed with tiny yellow roses, and black lace.

From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Antonio Fogazzaro