spindling
Example Sentences
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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
Though it all may be necessary to some distant bureaucrat�a most unlikely circumstance�when teachers comply they tend to feel like spindling, folding and mutilating all the forms.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was greatly devoted to her unfortunate sister, and had an especial affection for her only surviving nephew William, who from a sturdy infant had become a sickly, spindling lad.
From The Shunned House by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
