Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: spinning
IPA transcription: [sp'ɪnɪŋ]
Pronunciations of spinning
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: spinning
    Meaning: creating thread
Usage examples
  • Mike's head was still spinning.
  • "Where?" cried Harris, spinning round.
  • The spinning of tops was one of the all-absorbing winter sports.
  • "Only--" and she began to look for her parcel that had been sent spinning.
  • He was spinning slowly, so that stars ahead of him seemed to crawl across his view.
  • Brion raised his foot and kicked the knife free, sending it spinning across the room.
  • They go suddenly and headlong from the surface to the depths, spinning out from their compact mass a long, living thread.
  • There were special spinning-wheel songs, which the women sang, with words, in chorus or in dialogue, when employed in spinning.
  • Then the Queen stepped into her carriage, the rag coachman cracked his whip, and the wheels of the horses' platform began spinning around.
  • Three hundred miles from here, in the Alleghanies, people still can be found spinning and weaving and wearing homespun as in colonial days.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording 2012 phenomenon, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Vectrex, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Oldham, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Beatles, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Space elevator, License CC BY-SA 4.0