How to Use spinning wheel in a Sentence

spinning wheel

noun
  • All that was needed was a fellow, or two, to come along with a spinning wheel.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The Earth is sort of like an astronaut with a spinning wheel.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Tulloch will also demonstrate how to use a spinning wheel.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • Once hackled, the fibers were turned into thin yarns by drawing them out with the aid of a spinning wheel.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The event will also feature tarot card readers and a spinning wheel of cocktails.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Bring along your spinning wheel, drop spindle, knitting or current craft project and a sack lunch, and join us for the day.
    — Mary Mooney, OregonLive.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Remember, this thing doesn't need much energy for a mere spinning wheel.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 12 June 2018
  • Keep in mind that small spinning wheels can get caught on hair, so make sure your kiddos keep their remote control cars away from their long strands.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Parents, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Depending on the mouse, though, a free-spinning wheel may also bring an annoying buzzing noise, too.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Treadles, or foot levers, made their debut in the Middle Ages to power looms and spinning wheels.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The blank face of Kantor’s committee member looks like the spinning wheel of death on a stuck computer screen.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 June 2026
  • The machines feature spinning wheels, sounds and animations, along with a small screen to display the replays.
    — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The sleek bag is easy to pack up and go, thanks to its compact design, sleek outer shell, and multi-directional spinning wheels.
    — Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
  • The 360-degree spinning wheels, which make the suitcase easy to glide through airports, come off with just the push of a button.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Farther inside, an old-fashioned spinning wheel and a desktop computer with its keyboard.
    — Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The series riffs on a game show, with a spinning wheel that determines which challenge El-Waylly will take on.
    — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Visitors are first met with a spinning wheel that enables them to win coupons of up to $200 that can be used to load up their shopping carts.
    — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That's a free-spinning wheel, and that type of movement is helpful for flying through long documents, websites, spreadsheets, and the like.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The spacecrafts’ gyroscopes are small spinning wheels that work to rotate the telescope and keep it stable while observing.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Fiesta medal features both a spinning wheel of bread slices and an image of Safety Sally.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 29 June 2021
  • Gane connected on a spinning wheel kick midway through the round, but Ngannou continued his slow plod forward.
    — Nolan King, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Equipped with four full-rotational, 360-degree spinning wheels, this luggage aced our tests.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In this process the ropemaker would walk backward maintaining a steady pull on the yarn as the small hooks of the spinning wheel twisted the fibers together.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This popular, entertaining program is not about quilting bees and spinning wheels.
    — Courant Community, 1 May 2018
  • Nuzzo got up, but O’Malley backed him into the cage with a right side-kick and finished him with a gyroscope-quick, spinning wheel-kick.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2021
  • This unique 13-piece kit allows your preschooler to set up an entire water system, with pipes of different shapes and sizes, and even a spinning wheel.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Thus far, researchers have uncovered a longhouse, animal enclosures, spinning wheels for weaving, beads, lamps, pots, coins and more.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Expand it to the 16-inch-tall underseater with spinning wheels or turn it into the largest version, a full-sized 21-inch carry-on.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The clack-clack-clack of the spinning wheel and the announcing of the winning number tends to elicit a Pavlovian response from the audience.
    — David Andreatta, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • In this case, a synchronous condenser is a spinning wheel whose running amount of kinetic energy evens off the amount of current flowing from a source into the grid.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020

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