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

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

And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains� The Oriental Giles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore I took heart of grace when I thought of my dark face and spindling shape, hoping that when I should be grown up I might be counted not unworthy of my race.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)