REEL in a Sentence

reel

 n.  frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on axis, on which threads or lines are wound

1  The leader of the reel, who looked as if he had Irish blood in his veins, danced well, and his partner caught his fire.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I

2  "You'd have found me right off if you hadn't gone back to have that last reel with Denis," he brought out awkwardly.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II

3  The dancing is about to begin and the first number will, of course, be a reel, followed by a waltz.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  Gentlemen, if you wish to lead a reel with the lady of your choice, you must bargain for her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

5  If only she were Scarlett O'Hara again, out there on the floor in an apple-green dress with dark-green velvet ribbons dangling from her bosom and tuberoses in her black hair--she'd lead that reel.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

6  She was going to lead the reel.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

7  The back kick of the pistol made her reel, as the roar of the explosion filled her ears and the acrid smoke stung her nostrils.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

8  But, of course, she could do more with Frank in this sequestered alcove than in a breathless reel and she could listen fascinated to his talk and encourage him to greater flights of foolishness.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

9  Her slipper patted longingly in time with old Levi's large splayed foot as he twanged a strident banjo and called the figures of the reel.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

10  The sensation made her brain reel, and she tried to shut out consciousness by pressing her hands against her eyes.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13

11  But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.

12  At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.

13  The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.

14  The loose coils rapidly straightened out in a long dragging line astern, and then, instantly, the reel began to whirl.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.

15  Haul in here, Tahitian; reel up, Manxman.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.

1  A man can not spin and reel at the same time.

2  The hero was killed in the final reel.

3  The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle.

4  She reeled off the titles of a dozen or so of the novels.

5  Slowly the fisherman reeled in his line, bringing the fish ashore.

6  My grandmother often reeled off one story after another.

7  Norman's brain was reeling, but he did his best to appear calm.

8  His mind was reeling with an almost aesthetic delight at the beauty of the thing.