spindle

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.

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

A new company was found, the fabrication truly European: spindle from the Czech Republic, cables and curved glass from Italy, capsules from France, the main structure from the Netherlands.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

Then push the spindle against something hard to slide the motor assembly out the bottom.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024

The team utilized innovative techniques -- including in vitro reconstructions of hippocampal subregions and microfluidic tunnels for single axon communication -- to observe spontaneous spindle waves in isolated hippocampal neurons.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

There was just enough moonlight for us to be able to see the tape winding around and around on its spindle.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold