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

She hit the buzzer at the first high chain-link fence, which was garlanded with a spool of razor wire atop.

From Slate • May 2, 2025

I wished I could do something for Martha for being so kind to me—spin her a spool of gold, or a pile of it—but for all her kindness, she hadn’t made me any bargains.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff