How to Use spool in a Sentence

spool

1 of 2 noun

• Now let go of the kite and grasp the spool with both hands.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2022
• That’s where the mass of threads that spool and hang from the paintings come in.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Add a rod and reel, a spool of line, and a boat, dock or shoreline.
  — Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• Cay grinned, then looked down at his spool of red thread.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2020
• What about the spools on the wall above the twin beds — so quirky and engaging.
  — Mimi Read, House Beautiful, 9 May 2016
• Hold the kite in your non-dominant hand and the spool in the other.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2022
• Step 2: Run the cordage around a pole (or line around reel spool), then slip the tag end through the loose knot.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
• To test this, simply hold the reel and turn the spool with your hand until the drag kicks in.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
• That same spool is oversized, so line should peel off on the cast.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 Mar. 2020
• Adjust the height of a wheeled edger or the length of the spool on a nylon string trimmer.
  — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
• With each bite, the meat came unraveled, like a spool of thread.
  — Malcolm Mayhew, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Go long To stretch things out a bit, the researchers then turned to a long spool of cable.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2020
• Baitcast reels sit on top of the rod and release the line directly off of the spool and through the guides.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• Into each stocking goes a piece of cardboard cut in the shape of a spool.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
• For home sewers: safety pin, spool of thread and ball of yarn.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 4 Aug. 2017
• To delete them, open /var/spool/cups in Finder and delete any items in that folder.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 31 Oct. 2022
• With a baitcaster, ease the tension on your thumb so the spool can feed line.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
• Cohen had her tear the bread open; there were three spools of thread, baked inside.
  — Cody Delistraty, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2019
• Finally, thread your line through the bead and cover the spool with the elastic.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Aug. 2020
• Pull in the patio furniture, spool up the Netflix and get ready to nest for the next few months.
  — Sara Kennedy, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2017
• But it was found next to part of the main fuselage, with what appeared to be all the cable rolled up on a spool.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• Someone picks up a metal spool and clangs it against the table.
  — Saratatyana, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2021
• Measure about an arm’s length of ribbon and center it on top of the gift—but don’t cut it off the spool yet!
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 8 Dec. 2022
• The answers came out typed on a paper ribbon fed from a big spool.
  — PCMAG, 14 Feb. 2023
• The turbos spool up quickly, and the engine races up to its 7500-rpm redline.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2020
• Measure about an arm’s length of ribbon and center on top of gift—but don’t cut if off the spool yet!
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 12 Dec. 2019
• Because of a few spools of thread and a dozen needles, people were condemned to death.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• The ribbon spool cup is meant to look like ribbons are wrapped around the holiday cup.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• With this extra-long 108-foot spool of LED lights that switches between the two, the answer is both.
  — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2023
• Most anglers just rinse their fly reels off with freshwater, but that water may not penetrate and flush the coils of thick line on the spool.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2023

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spool

2 of 2 verb

• Weiss had cleaned the reel and spooled it with new line.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2018
• The back end of the line is tied to the backing (strong, thin string) spooled onto your reel.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2023
• Its impact spools out in their lives, and through them in the lives of many others.
  — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• His days and nights spool out this way, one bleeding into the next.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• But that series took a little while to spool up through word of mouth.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Edgar’s story spools out over the next five hundred pages.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• The cold wind was blowing hard off the lake; the waves were spooling backward and bursting white.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• Light spooled across the water from Canada and turned the underside of the clouds yellow and pink.
  — Porter Fox, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• All rods and reels were 5-weight models, and all were spooled with the same weight-forward floating line.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 Mar. 2020
• Soon, the sheet music starts to spool into vision: it's covered in blood.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2017
• The rope was spooled inside a wooden box anchored to the ground that Garcia would crank to increase or decrease the slack.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 1 May 2018
• This system brake-holds the output shaft of the 8-speed transmission while engine rpm spools up.
  — WSJ, 20 July 2017
• The free-spooling reel allowed the bait – a pink bead and spawn sac – to be carried with the current in a natural manner.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
• Later on, the book spools out toward these other characters, like Noah and Daw.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
• A half hour later, a long-time visitor needed a reel spooled with fishing line.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Match your stick with a quality reel that has plenty of line capacity and spool it 50- or 65-pound braid.
  — Steve Price, Field & Stream, 7 June 2023
• But, as the tale spools out, the effect is a vivid and awful dramatisation of the narcissism of obsessive love.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Welky spools this story out with remarkable detail, yet the book never lags.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2018
• If that’s the case, China may need to spool back ambitions for its Digital Silk Road to countries closer to home.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2019
• There's a massive surge of torque when the turbo spools, so much so that the rear tires barely maintain composure during a one-three upshift.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 21 June 2023
• And for the first time, the Wrangler runs on diesel, thanks to a 3.0 V6 Turbo Diesel engine that whistles and clatters as the turbo spools up and driving the monster to bear down on anything in its path.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• Marvel As with many comic book superheroes, Storm’s origin story spooled out over the years.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• Because of the weight of the lures, most anglers throw them on heavy-duty two-handed baitcasters 7 feet in length or more, and spool with at least 17-pound-test fluorocarbon line.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 14 May 2017
• To increase throttle response, the electric blower generates boost while the turbos spool up to speed.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2020
• Town after town spooled by, tire shop after U-Haul dealer after cheap motel.
  — Andrew Moore, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Command the common-rail injectors to dump as much diesel in the cylinders as the engine can handle and the single turbocharger spools up without much haste.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 16 June 2017
• The name Fiberbots refers to the robots themselves: small, cylindrical machines that spool fiberglass filament out of an arm.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2018
• While new messages will be spooled on senders' servers and sent as soon as Internet service is restored, that’s still a major disruption.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2018
• The turbo spools up quickly through short final-drive gearing to provide terrific thrust.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• Quality and craftsmanship: Is the line consistent and reliable from spool to spool? Price: Does the line offer good value?
  — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024