spindle

GM has stated that in the event of a spindle fracture, anti-lock brakes, stability control and traction control remain functional until the vehicle comes to a complete stop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ellie Knot, of Devon Biodiversity Records Centre, said there were eight species of ermine moth, so it was hard to tell if these were spindle ermine.

From BBC ● May 13, 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

It sundered, and a pale spindle of light gleamed between his opened arms, a faint oval reaching from the ground up to the height of his raised hands.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

“I could’ve just gone online to Home Depot, cut their spindles in half and thrown them up on the porch,” Cain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

The study demonstrates that slow waves and sleep spindles can originate from axons within the hippocampus' cornu ammonis 3 region.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

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

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

The chair-legs were spindled out as long as stilts, and the boy sat perched a-top of them, like a cloud, in the corner of the roof.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Nine times out of ten the result was a weak, spindling plant by the time it was safe to put it into the ground—which was not until all danger from frost was over.

From Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover by Eben E. (Eben Eugene) Rexford