Sentence examples for spindle from inspiring English sources
The word "spindle" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a noun to refer to a thin rod that rotates, sometimes with a pointed end, and is used to hold or twist thread, yarn, a rope, or other material. For example: "She used a spindle to spin her own yarn for knitting."
noun
A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
Lori Marino of Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, reviewed this evidence.One pertinent observation is that dolphins, whales and their kind have brains as anatomically complex as those of humans, and that these brains contain a particular type of nerve cell, known as a spindle cell, that in humans is associated with higher cognitive functions such as abstract reasoning.
In her works the spiralling spindle represented the beginning of chaos.
Perhaps it is, in which case circularity also fits the threading of our lives round the spindle of the Fates, that gossipy trio with their flashing scissors.
Dr Duesberg speculates that carcinogenic chemicals affect the spindle and thereby leave the resulting cells with too many or too few chromosomes.
These puzzles, he asserts, can be explained by the epigenetic phenomenon of aneuploidy, in which a cell possesses the wrong number of chromosomes.During the process of cell division, copies of chromosomes are lined up and distributed between the daughter cells by a scaffold of proteins known as the spindle.
From spindle whorls to steam engines, they have served to harvest and store energy for use in the (immediate) future.
The naffer brand of pubs have for years made Tudorbethan kitchens their model, all horse-brasses and spindle-back chairs; the more fashionable or very much older favour flagstones, open fires, dried flowers and pewter.
In the genus Hornstedtia (family Zingiberaceae), the inflorescences are wholly just above ground level, with firm empty outer bracts forming a spindle-shaped structure out of the top of which the flowers emerge, one or two at a time.
The typical fish body is streamlined and spindle-shaped, with an anterior head, a gill apparatus, and a heart, the latter lying in the midline just below the gill chamber.
In squids the ink is ejected as a spindle-shaped mass about the size of the squid itself, the ink coagulating in the water.
Smooth muscle contains spindle-shaped cells 50 to 250 μm in length by 5 to 10 μm in diameter.
