Sentence examples for spiked wheel from inspiring English sources
The lay-down is as the names suggests, the people lay down on boards behind a spinning spiked wheel.
The spiked wheel by which she was sentenced to be killed broke (whence the term Catherine wheel), and she was then beheaded.
In Renaissance paintings, the martyred St. Catherine carries the spiked wheel used to execute her; St. Lawrence, the gridiron on which he was roasted.
A fragment of a spiked wheel, drawn in graphite or embossed on paper, is at once abstract, mechanistic and fetishistic, like a spiked collar.
Michael Armstrong, who has manned the Blanche's spiked wheel for 12 years.
Saints seem indestructible for a very long time, until they prove not to be: St. Catherine of Alexandria's touch shattered the spiked wheel she was to be killed upon, and then she was beheaded.
The shield is a default power-up which protects you from hazards such as the flames, spinning spike wheels, stone blocks and wooden beam.
With a cowed BBC increasingly feeling like an auxiliary government information portal, it has been left to Snow and friends to spike the wheels of the supposedly great and good.
Its six-foot wheels are spiked with dinosaur- sized steel teeth that can crush, mold and squeeze up to 13,000 tons of garbage into a fifteen-foot-deep rectangle the length and width of a football field.
With Bratton at the wheel, LAPD stops spiked from 587,200 in 2002 to 875,204 by 2008 and almost exclusively targeted people of color, specifically Black and Latino men.
