Sentence examples for revolving disc from inspiring English sources

We would almost wager a fiver that, unbeknownst to himself, he is rarely frank, suffers from inhibitions, and has a devotion to mediocrity that it has brought him at last into the want-ad section of a literary-and revolving disc weekly.

We would almost wager a fiver that, unbeknownst to himself, he is rarely frank, suffers from inhibitions, and has a devotion to mediocrity that it has brought him at last into the want-ad section of a literary-and revolving disc weekly..

King George, who has one of the world's largest collections of Ellington records, is often found bending over a revolving disc so that he can hear more clearly the characteristically dry, dull thud of the band's bass fiddle pulsing under an Ellington theme or the intricate sinuosity of a tenor saxophone as it curls in and out of the ensemble.

They offer their young listeners a device for decoding messages, the "revolving cipher disc".

It has a curved, mirrored interior within which revolving mirrored discs produce mesmerizing, woozy reflections.

An artificial turbine has been employed to revolve rotating disc in the developed angular motion sensing unit and a common magnet has been used to generate magnetic disturbance.

The storm tore branches off oak trees more than a century old and did considerable damage to the house, but, when it was all over, the Calder mobile — a lignum-vitae disc delicately perched on a cigar-shaped lignum-vitae pole and sprouting flimsy wire stems and leaves — was still upright, the leaves fluttering languidly and making a cheerful tinkling sound as the disc revolved on the pole.

The game revolves around metal discs about the size of poker chips that are emblazoned with unique identifying tags.

The planets of Earth's Solar System formed from a flat disc of gas and dust revolving around the Sun's equator, so they all started out in nearly the same plane.

Two examples: Charles Ray's "Rotating Circle," a white disc flush with a white wall, revolving so rapidly that it becomes nearly invisible, and Ceal Floyer's "Ink on Paper," a video during which a circle is drawn on a piece of paper over the course of an hour.

Rotation generates centrifugal forces, pulling the cloud's equators outwards, crushing the poles, until the out-bulging yet in-falling sphere, revolving ever faster around its center, flattens into a disc.