spinning
Example Sentences
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Verified video showed an American jet fighter spinning as it fell to the ground.
She sat at the spinning wheel, spinning from the fleece we were working on together.
From Literature
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"If you think about taking a bowl of pizza dough and setting it spinning above your head, it flattens out," she explained.
From BBC
The jet stream sent areas of low pressure spinning in from the Atlantic, but their progress was blocked by an area of high pressure that became slow-moving across Scandinavia.
From BBC
Although it can be loosely compared to the motion of a spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, the true processes driving the field are far more complicated.
From Science Daily
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