spool

Example Sentences

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She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

The props turn slowly in unison—calibrating, calibrating—then spool furiously, a squadron of lawn mowers on deck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

"Data is a sequence of bits and bytes," explains senior product developer, Alexey Mantsev, as film ran through a spool at his fingertips.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

Different types of histones spool the DNA more tightly, keeping it protected, or loosely, allowing the DNA to be read and turned into proteins that carry out the many functions of a cell.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

“It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. And how exactly, will you use a spool of thread to save a princess?”

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo