Sentence examples for cartwheel from inspiring English sources

Time and time again the reader is halted and forced to ask the question, what did he just say? "Afternoons cartwheel, flashing midnight's knickers at me".

Would you be able to do a handstand, or a cartwheel?

There is a tin can painted red, a china egg, stones from a local stream, a segment of a cartwheel and a piece of guttering.

It seems as if the clouds had already been squeezed virtually dry by a giant pair of hands, so that all that is left is an irregular dripping.Flying foxes cartwheel above the nearby trees as if spinning around on an invisible Ferris wheel.

Much of the population lives in a large cartwheel, its rim in orbit, its spokes reaching down to the earth at the hub.

Yaks cartwheel across railway lines.

In parts of Europe, as an alternative to buildings, the white stork often uses artificial platforms erected for its benefit, commonly a cartwheel lying horizontally on top of a high pole, or a similar structure.

The very large "cartwheel" ruffs were not worn in Spain, nor was the wheel farthingale.

The deficiency in copper, briefly remedied by large "cartwheel" issues, was made up by private issues of vast numbers of tokens.

The exercise usually starts and finishes with a series of tumbling movements, such as a handspring or a cartwheel with a half-turn (roundoff), continuing with handsprings and somersaults (in the air), either backward or forward.

Several males line up on the perch, and each one sequentially flutters over the others, turning a cartwheel in midair and singing a brief song.