Spins
[spɪn]
Examples
- This odd little symbol spins gaily round the world; it seems incredible that men would have invented and made a pet of it twice over. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You spin out your explanation as Moses spins out his sermons. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A German box--very pretty, but if it falls it always spins away as far as it can. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One electric generator there is 11 feet 7 inches in diameter and spins around at the rate of 250 revolutions a minute. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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