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From re-creating each staircase spindle to replicating 19th-century windows, a relocated Queen Anne gets a family-friendly update that honors its past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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

Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

The process of dividing the sister chromatids over the cells is guided by the interaction between the centromeres and structures known as spindle microtubules.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024

“The curse says that the princess will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. Well, do you see anything sharp on this wheel? Here’s the spindle.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

"This finding suggests that sleep spindles play an important role in the consolidation of complex associations, which underlie the completion of memories of whole events," says Professor Luciana Besedovsky, lead researcher of the study.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

Because these spindles change with aging, understanding these wave patterns better could provide insights into how plasticity breaks down with disease, Muller said.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

So he mounted the stairs, the worn bare treads, the cracked and scaling wall on one side, the balustrade with its intermittent missing spindles on the other.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

Matted in dead leaves, it wound past snatches of green fern that spindled down the hillsides.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022

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

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

Here and there, it seemed, a humped or spindled form held against all comers its passive place.

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter

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

At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings.

From Time Magazine Archive

I never was made to exist under ground; and when I am obliged to, what wonder that I vegetate, like other unfortunate plants—grow wan, spindling, and white!

From My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel by Loughborough, Mary Ann