spool
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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
She grabs a zipper and spool of thread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
A spool of tens of kilometres of cable is fitted to the bottom of a drone and the physical fibre optic cord is attached to the controller held by the pilot.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
The breeze against my skin, the fading pain in my fingers, the sound of this tape winding from one spool to the next, reminds me of everything I’ve heard over the past day.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
By that point, stock traders had moved away from using old-fashioned stock tickers and their endless spools of paper tape.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
The marriage’s past spools out with such clarity that what they have for breakfast becomes ominous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
The spools of thread Carrie unravels eventually end.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
Gone are the endless spools of film that collected in university commencement offices.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
Eventually, there were deserts and more forests and mountain ranges and even an ocean, all accessible by large networks of roads that unwound this way and that, like great spools of yarn.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
The concern over the start process is centred on the increased amount of time it takes to get the turbos in the engines spooled up to the right speed for the optimum launch.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
As the decades spooled past, British society would become less deferential and British media more intrusive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Nile, though, is unencumbered by empathy, guilt, or the urge for compromise, a mile-long bunting of red flags spooled into one cashmere-clad creep.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
Those DNA strands get packaged into chromatin fibers, which are spooled around histone proteins and then repeatedly looped to form highly compact structures that fit into the cell nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Shadows spooled from the breaking surf, and it reminded Danny of the basket of yarn that Mrs. Garner kept in the living room out of reach from the twins.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Jersey City firefighters literally reached the end of their rope, spooling out 200 feet of rescue line before turning back, not wanting to get themselves lost in the smoke.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
This ionized gas flows outward along magnetic field lines emerging from our star, spooling out in radial spirals tied to the sun’s rotation.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2023
Fishing fleets spooling out longlines—kilometers-long floating lines festooned with hooks—zero in on these same spots in pursuit of blue sharks.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 1, 2023
Asawa expected the children to help with household chores, gardening and preparing artistic materials, including spooling wire for her sculptures.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022
And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
