SPINNING in a Sentence

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48 example sentences for SPINNING, such as:

1. The plane was spinning out of control.
2. The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
3. A man can not spin and reel at the same time.
4. The impact of the blow sent me spinning like a top.
5. Let's spin the coin to decide whether to go or not.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPINNING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spinning
 a.  rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling; circling
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  The brandy was spinning in her head now and she felt giddy and a little reckless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  But even as she spoke it, a sudden calm fell on her spirit, her head began to stop spinning and even the giddiness of the brandy was lessened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  Ashley was hardly ever in her thoughts during the day but at night when she was tired from dancing or her head was spinning from too much champagne--then she thought of Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis, its bow, by anticipation, was made to face the whale's head while yet under water.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
7  But I reckon it was more than a cat-nap, for when I waked up the stars was shining bright, the fog was all gone, and I was spinning down a big bend stern first.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
8  Tom was over the stile and starting for the house; the wagon was spinning up the road for the village, and we was all bunched in the front door.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII.
9  In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In BRIAR ROSE
10  A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In TOM THUMB
11  The water at the back of the house could be heard, idly spinning whirpools in its creep between the rows of dry feather-headed reeds which formed a stockade along each bank.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
12  Whilst she abstractedly watched them spinning and fluctuating in the increasing moonlight she suddenly heard her name whispered by a voice over her shoulder.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
13  We cannot see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
14  Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
15  Meek, mouse-colored donkeys, laden with panniers of freshly cut grass passed by, with a pretty girl in a capaline sitting between the green piles, or an old woman spinning with a distaff as she went.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
2  The plane was spinning out of control.
3  The impact of the blow sent me spinning like a top.
4  He saw the weathervane spinning madly in the powerful breeze.
5  Pete has succeeded in smashing fashion in spinning up North American Aviation into a major client.
6  A few years ago, my boyfriend Sean was fined while spinning fire in a deserted open concrete area amidst the sprinkling of light rain.
7  Is there anyone who doesn't have a financial interest in spinning positive news on home sales and prices?
8  A man can not spin and reel at the same time.
9  They would spin and weave cloth, cook and attend to the domestic side of life.
10  The Government will try to spin out the conference into next autumn.
11  She's in a spin over the arrangements for the party.
12  On the descents, cyclists spin past cars, freewheeling downhill at tremendous speed.
13  They have tried to put a positive spin on the situation.
14  Let's spin the coin to decide whether to go or not.
15  Well, the secretary of state's trip to Canada is putting a brand new spin on the term diplomatic relations.