Sentence examples for spindles from inspiring English sources

Mr Marsh explores its lesser-known nooks, such as Poole, an English resort-town, which is home to the world's two biggest makers of air spindles.

At the height of the Great Depression in 1932 only 11% of the world's mechanical spindles were operating in Britain, compared with 61% in 1860.

With 34m spindles, India is, next to China, the world's biggest yarn-spinner.

The more frequently someone experiences waves of brain activity known as sleep spindles, the more his brain scraps items that it is supposed to.

Rolls are driven through spindles and couplings, either directly or via a gear, by one or several electric motors.

A gang-drilling machine consists of several individual columns, drilling heads, and spindles mounted on a single base and utilizing a common table.

In a typical honing operation, such as honing automotive engine cylinder walls, a honing machine with one or more spindles is used.

James Hargreaves's spinning jenny (patented 1770) operated a number of spindles simultaneously but was suitable only for making yarn used as filling.

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.