spindle

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

Once that initial stable attachment appears, alignment follows naturally through the geometry of the spindle and the behavior of microtubules.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025

I can weave and spin, or plait matting, but there is no money for spindle, cotton or fibre.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

"We've discovered that the hippocampus, typically associated with memory formation, plays a crucial role in generating slow waves and sleep spindles, offering new insights into how these brain waves support memory processing during sleep."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Muller and his colleagues found that rotating wave patterns called spindles that occur during non-REM sleep – when our brains, breathing and heart rate slow – could enable plasticity required for storing memories during sleep.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

I pushed some logs away and saw spokes and spindles.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

If one or two prayer-towers spindled above Ballydehob it would be a perfect Turkish village.

From Last Words by Crane, Stephen

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

Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots are not necessarily the swiftest, that the spindling bat should be controlled not with the forearm, like a tennis racquet, but with the wrist.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without it, or without sufficient light, or in too warm an atmosphere, the young Aster plants become tall and spindling, or, as florists express it, are drawn.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various