How to Use spindle in a Sentence

spindle

noun

• And the spindle of the hole was in the middle of the mouth.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 11 Feb. 2020
• Weld spindle brackets to the front corners of the frame.
  — Harry Sawyers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2015
• Twist your spindle into the bow string so that the string wraps around it once.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• With the spindle in the bow string, hold the fire board down with one foot and place one end of the spindle on top of the V on the fire board.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• In the case of this DeWalt grinder, the spindle lock button is located at the rear of the gear case.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
• But one of its spindles was deeply cracked and a piece knocked out while being shipped home by UPS.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
• Depending on whether the break was at the top or bottom of the spindle, the bend in the shape might not wind up a perfect match.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
• The weighted spindle would spin and twist fibers into yarn.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 June 2019
• In his suit, Ulis asks that he and a DNA expert be allowed to collect swabs from the spindle.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
• While across the hall stands a highboy with spindle legs that give away its age - sometime in the early 1700s.
  — Joan Hunt, Courant Community, 21 Dec. 2017
• About a third of the display is wrapped around a spindle at the bottom, facing backward.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 9 May 2022
• One carpet is attached to the wall on a spindle, as if to say that the carpets are not precious, but sold off the rack by the yard.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• At first blush, this might seem like a non-issue—who wouldn't prefer a drive with a faster spindle speed?
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2020
• The train shuffled field after tree after field, as Dada did with cards and me as a spindle at the heart of it, the last still thing in the world.
  — Vona Groarke, The New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2022
• On a busy day, when Liam’s would sell hundreds of shakes, Liam had all nine spindles going at once.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Once tightened between those two flanges, the wheel is locked securely to the spindle and spins.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
• Simply place the platter on the spindle and pull the belt out slightly at the top corner to pull it over the motor pulley.
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• 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
• On a table were miniature looms for children, and a small drop spindle.
  — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• The spacing between them is enough that children can become trapped in the spindles.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
• The bookkeeper went up to his abacus hanging on a nail and slid a black bead from right to left along its spindle.
  — Joanne Turnbull, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• The tiered top drawer has a pleasing design with the drop spindle design.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2019
• Now Brigham is left with what toilet paper is on the spindles in the bathrooms and boxes of tissue.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 15 Mar. 2020
• The benches were made of steel and the spindles on them were originally part of the gate at his grandmother’s house.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Aug. 2019
• It is shaped like the love child of a conical junonia sea shell and the spindle-like fusilli pasta.
  — Nik Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
• Divide between 2 large soup bowls and spindle with goat cheese.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 23 June 2021
• The quarter panels high on the sides of the car flare away from the center while the door panels pull inward; the spindle shape appears again in the rear fascia.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2017
• There are areas that are nothing but white ash and some little spindle trees.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• The company's employees will use a reusable spindle that's cleaned after each McFlurry to replace the job of the old spoons.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• The thick, woody stalks from wildflowers like goldenrod can work as effective spindles.
  — Bradley Duncan, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024