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The word 'reel' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb or a noun. Example sentence: The fisherman reeled in his line, hoping to find a large catch.
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reel
verb
To wind on a reel.
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After failed attempts by the chador-clad woman to reel her in with her scowling face, the male officer intervenes to give it a shot, gesturing with a typical "come on now, let's go," but the red-streaked lady jolts back in a don't-touch-me kind of way.
Her song, Children of the Universe, has an anthem-style chorus and her performance promises to make full use of explosive pyrotechnics to reel in the 170 million viewers who tune into the singing contest.
He'd reel into a crowd, emerge holding someone else's drink high over his head.
And yet, even as Swift is rubbing elbows with Justin Timberlake and allegedly feuding with Katy Perry, country music is working its hardest to reel her back in.
They can reel off dates and statistics until the cows come home.
Despite that, the pack have moved to within 2 minutes of the breakaway - less because of a concerted effort to reel the leaders in, more because the front seven are running out of puff after 100km of constant rise and fall since they left York.
Unlike his more flashy contemporaries, 6ft-plus aristocrats of the front line towering above their competitors in a series of decorous leaps stage-managed for the highlights reel, Cahill's headers have always emerged up and out of the tangle of bodies in the box, as if capturing the evolution of a collective kinetic mass rather than some deviation from it.
Those in the northeast sector of America continue to reel from the loss of Boston: Snow-Veiled City That Was.
Osborne was forced to reel out grim growth figures published by the OBR, which also predicted a bigger hole in the public finances in coming years than it had previously expected.
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Dan Dickinson, Sports editor, Gothamist, New York: A slog of a match last weekend saw New York edge FC Dallas on a highlight-reel worthy own goal.
But Ampex video recorders, with their two-inch reel-to-reel tapes, were the size of a juke box.
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