Sentence examples for Catherine wheel from inspiring English sources

"Which one?" "The Catherine wheel," she says.

Some species are variously known as Natal paintbrush, Catherine wheel, giant paintbrush, and African bloodlily.

Whizz! went the Catherine Wheel as she spun round and round.

But she mistimed a leap to the lower bar and was left spinning round it like a malfunctioning Catherine wheel.

No wonder his contemporary and friend, Ralph Richardson, described him as "a Catherine wheel, spinning out a thousand ideas".

What came first the money launderers or the flatterers.What came first the Catherine wheel or the icebox.

At their back, four astonishingly beautiful tiger pelts are arranged, Catherine wheel-like, at full stretch.

Now he sports Catherine-wheel eyes and a slightly slack jaw.

Less than a week later, after the Catherine-wheel innings against South Africa at the MCG, the whole world knew of him.

Four waist-length black hairdos catherine-wheel in time to colossal riffs, red robes billowing in a backdraft of psychedelic reverb.

FROM space, there are few more awe-inspiring sights on the earth's surface than a hurricane: a white Catherine-wheel swirl of cloud sailing over an ocean's perfect blue.