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    spin


    spinning


    spins


    spun


    1. He wondered how long he could possibly spin this one out


    2. Every spin of the cog wheels in his brain drained him of


    3. I spin round to see Stephen walking through the gates and across the drive, newspaper tucked under his arm


    4. tangle and spin around her, casting her into the middle of a trawling net


    5. The mystery of infinite walls made my head spin


    6. Through those repetitions of days with Smiler on duty, I sat on the mattress and watched the world spin away from me as though I were floating above a stage set


    7. The spindle limbed bushes that edged the footpath seemed to tangle and spin around her, casting her into the middle of a trawling net


    8. the child and mother spin, arms wide,


    9. where brasses reflect the spin of gold


    10. an axis spin of earth, day by day, is nothing

    11. beneath the spin of aerobatic house martins,


    12. upon the shoulders of giants, satellites spin,


    13. wrapped in feathers that spin up into bright skies


    14. It is true, true that I spin, that I turn somersaults


    15. and cars spin down the road,


    16. until the clock hands above her spin out past


    17. pausing to keep the spin of the world at bay,


    18. My head was starting to spin from my thoughts


    19. Together with Sir John and his cabinet colleagues, the great politician swept through the corridors of power and into the office where the two doctors of spin were pretending to type away furiously at blank computer screens


    20. As the great politician tried out different tones of voice and different facial expressions, as he opened his stance and practised his smile, the two doctors of spin encouraged and enthused; "Oh, sublime, Sir

    21. cauldrons made Billy’s head spin


    22. back, are easy to hold, and as they spin, they produce


    23. doctors of spin ever seen or heard


    24. spin demanded an increase in their salaries somewhat above the


    25. corridors of power and into the office where the two doctors of spin


    26. stance and practised his smile, the two doctors of spin encouraged


    27. positive side, and no more than one side of the coin could spin around to see


    28. the world spin, and he slumped to the ground in a


    29. “Wouldn't a person already need to know what was coming along, I mean in the big picture, to be ready for any opportunity that arises? And let's say they have such knowledge, it makes my head spin but wouldn't that make a person constantly and always determining the present and future possible worth of each and every little incident, news, and happenstance they encountered, every moment of every day? How could anyone get anything done? It would make me crazy


    30. watching the ceiling spin out of control, ‘Why--?’

    31. began to spin, she raised a hand to her throbbing


    32. pressure buffeted his senses making his mind spin


    33. Then, and only then, Tom knew, it was possible to spin the


    34. Obviously your hands could spin around themselves almost faster than the eye can follow without hitting each other and even to a tempo or rhythm, but not if managed by a center which cannot currently process at that speed


    35. Thoughts spin around inside his head; is Bex going to get better? Will she be a vegetable? Will she ever wake up? Of course he knew there was a drugs scene in the clubs, there had always been a drugs scene in the clubs, but he never believed that Bex would get involved


    36. The short man pushed his beast of a mate towards Harry, who instantly moved into a low spin which put the approaching man and the remaining fellow behind him to their knees


    37. Stones fly as the car is put into gear and wheels spin


    38. to spin in a circular motion then they


    39. that one slip would cause the wheel to spin back violently


    40. His mother, Mary, was an avid story teller and many a time she would spin tales that fascinated her young son

    41. his mind was in a spin


    42. Yes, I’d have to live on with the knowledge that I was a murderess, but could it be any worse than knowing that I was reviled on Olympus? It seemed impossible that the callous Fates could spin anything more onerous than what I’d borne already


    43. She taught me how to spin her and that was the best


    44. Simultaneously, I lit the candle, caused the water in the chalice to spin like a whirlpool, ca small bud to grow within the bowl, and made the feather float


    45. The objects didn’t move, flutter, or spin; they simple were


    46. When it was a steady rhythm, I sought my orb of power and encouraged it to spin


    47. The Fixer watched the carousel spin


    48. whatever death his tortured thoughts produced, to have her entrails studied before he savored them, to have the few scraps that he didn’t eat tossed out for the ravens, to have to bear the fear of it for weeks, until he settled on a pleasing method… it was unmercifully cruel for the Fates to spin such a bitter end to her hard life


    49. Edward looked at them, seeing girls in short jeans and revealing shirts, talking to men who were old enough to be their fathers, flirting with them, playing with their hair and standing in poses that would make any man's head spin


    50. "Either way, we can spin this around in any direction we want












































    1. “Really? I highly doubt that,” Silence said as she stepped forward, bringing the spinning blades closer to Nancy


    2. “Good,” Silence responded as she came in closer with her spinning weapons


    3. The blades were very close to Nancy, she could feel the air whoosh by as they passed near her through the spinning arc of the attack pattern


    4. The larva then becomes a pupa by spinning a cocoon and emerges in about a week as a hungry adult


    5. Leaning heavily on the arm of the chair, I stand … whoooo, the room’s spinning a bit


    6. spinning with the waltz, her blood still racing with his touch


    7. Johnny wandered over, clicking his heels on the floor as he walked, still spinning


    8. stamping on the brakes, he sent the car into a slide, spinning her round on the tarmac


    9. The world seemed to split in two, with each half spinning in a different


    10. Through the long ages of Smith’s indifference the madly spinning Earth

    11. When she saw the projection of Tipperary spinning slowly in the air above the Ops console, displaying the damage to the ship, she flew that way


    12. A brief opening revealed the mechs already spinning on their puffers and maneuvering to get what they’d come for


    13. He listened intently enough, but was always wide-eyed and nervous, flinching visibly every time Robbie shouted out his updates on our preciously spinning time together


    14. Menachem told me later that as I pounced on Robbie, that as I drew back my fist to smash it into his face, The Man had simply turned and aimed his next kick at my head, sending me spinning into the corner of the room


    15. The world shifted in that moment, spinning just that little bit faster on its leaning axis


    16. Afterwards, in the spinning freefall, when the sadist mourns


    17. his curses spinning round my head, a thick polluted air,


    18. spinning us in and out


    19. He paced up and down, spinning round and shouting at the sky, losing the whereabouts of the accused and scarily out of control


    20. on the wet, wet earth spinning

    21. Cups and plates went spinning through the air to smash on the floor and against the walls


    22. The tall woman busy at the spinning wheel furthest from me, bows her head graciously and smiles as she hears her name


    23. A spinning hook will be trailing off the end of it


    24. Cups and plates went spinning through the


    25. ' I said, appreciating how great it is that my head isn't spinning now


    26. Spinning around he quickly dragged Mistress Sera with him out of the Hall


    27. Mistress Sera spotted this and fearing the worst for Naria kicked out and sent the weapon spinning away


    28. Boras spun around and struck her with such force that she went spinning to the ground


    29. lies have you been spinning to Elucia?’


    30. It is all too fantastical and her head is spinning

    31. spinning stopped and she was able to stand without


    32. Their combined momentum yanked Harry from his feet; he released his grip on the staff at the perfect instant and in a towering tucked back flip, flew spinning over the hyacinth-rimmed pond and landed one-footed onto a bench


    33. The melody in his head is muted but the disc is spinning


    34. ' He didn't mind, but before I'd even finished getting him something to drink he'd spotted 'I' several times and I swear I thought I was watching myself carefully! And forget that spinning hands thing


    35. The institution known as the Kassikan made most of it’s money by spinning off industrial concerns using technologies that were discovered by the Kassikan


    36. 'Sonny,' still hovered in their ears as Harry firmly grasped the hand on his shoulder and dropped into a spinning crouch; the scream of pain from the hand's owner was silenced shortly as he yanked on his arm to free his hand with such force that as Harry released his hand his own fist smashed into his face and he crumpled like an imploded building


    37. Without pausing to allow them time to think, he was whirling, spinning, and jabbing at them with ferocity and strength, unyielding and unabatedly


    38. When the wheel stopped spinning, he smiled and turned to the crowd


    39. Sharnie lived a rather urban lifestyle for these parts, spinning lots of yarn in the weaving barn and spending the proceeds on cooks and cups around the pond


    40. Matt had little idea what was going on; his head was spinning

    41. When the truck finished spinning and was still in one piece, she flung the door open and screamed, "You’re crazy


    42. By the time March and warmer afternoons graced northern England, Harry was keeping quite a number of plates spinning in the air at once


    43. Then the power came back as she screamed that she was everything he desired, everything he could desire, that he was the captive of the witch queen and that it would go on, from lifetime to lifetime, century to century, spinning thru eternity


    44. My head was spinning now and it wouldn’t be long until I passed out


    45. Spinning like a windmill in a hurricane, he launched the blade at his opponent, who was stoically still, his hands coiled around his blackened staff as he awaited its arrival


    46. Just as his fingers wrapped around the handle, the spinning wheel of steel and flame came upon his opponent


    47. only to be met with a similar spinning wheel; this one, a whirlwind of blackened wood


    48. Tetloan fell to his knees, the stones all fell from the air, as did his spinning blade


    49. His head was spinning


    50. The spinning of linen yarn is carried on in Scotland nearly in the same way as the knitting of














































    1. But! The situation spins


    2. I freeze and the room spins as her words hit me


    3. Apollo's head spins with the thoughts, crisscrossing his mind, contradicting one another


    4. They all have huge smiles on their faces but Apollo instantly inquires, "Where's Grace?" As soon as he speaks two arms embrace him from behind and she spins around him, a planting her lips to his


    5. the universe spins on a pinhead


    6. of murk-wood water, that spins the compass


    7. Hawk pulls out and spins,


    8. The world spins momentarily as her treacherous memory reminds her of why she is here


    9. Jim falls back and spins away from the girl


    10. As for their parents, when their voices became weary of directing their daughters' defense, they simply watched and Harry redoubled his onslaught in leaps and spins which at times seemed to defy gravity in their height and duration

    11. "Fuck!" Jock spins on his heels


    12. In the real moment, in the breaking of the spells that bind us to the wheel, when the world spins slowly and feet move inexorably towards the end of days, you see everything clearly


    13. The world spins down, I've seen a change in the pattern of Kenduul years since I was young


    14. She spins as she swings it


    15. Our planet in fact is not stationary and exclusively blessed by the Divine in contrast with all other galactic spheres—much to our unjustified belittlement of them and exaltation of ourselves! In reality, the Earth spins around like one of those toy tops and travels around like one of those toy train sets, methodically and faithfully circling that hot, glowing ball in the sky that comes and goes on a daily basis, flaring up like my allergies and hemorrhoids that are just as regular and persistent as that shining, brilliant star we call the sun


    16. And, as the carousel spins faster and faster, everyone is swung out to an almost horizontal level


    17. It f spins in third gear


    18. ” When Beth lost on three consecutive spins, he abruptly announced it was time to cash her chips, but quickly discovered that getting her to quit was far more challenging than getting her started


    19. Because the world spins a little faster


    20. He told me that, if you find the latest machines without handles, press ‘1 x 1’ till the free spins come up, then ‘1 x 1’ forty-eight times, and then hit ‘maximum bet’ and the maximum pay line will come up

    21. Luck followed him as they walked past poker machines going off with free spins and mini jackpot wins for women with their eyes glued to their machines


    22. She stops in her tracks, and spins around on Mandy


    23. Philip spins round in his seat, "So what's her name?"


    24. Colling filled the tank with gasoline from one of the pickup’s jerry cans, and after a few spins around the stable yard, he felt confident enough to take it on the road


    25. “The receptionist at the information desk told me that you were throwing down with head spins the night you checked in,” I said as I high fived him


    26. Then in true Boogie Bob form he dove and spiraled to his head like a tornado and started tapping around in head spins


    27. In the midst of Bob doing his head spins, an austere looking male nurse with a dildo demeanor walked into our “break-room,” and gave us a stink face


    28. I continued spouting at the nurse, “Can you rock out head spins like that?”


    29. All of the other times I had ever practiced my head spins at home in my basement I was only able to pull off about three head spins at the most


    30. ” He was talking about my head spins of course

    31. He was mainly tripping off the idea that he had unhooked his tubes, lines, and all, and then was able to bust out with head spins


    32. “They are the real deal; they can do head spins, flips, and spinny twisty thingys,” she had called it


    33. When Braun Drix took another turn in the cypher I told Dan, “Braun is always boasting of his elbow spins, so check this out


    34. But at the same time I was worried about not having his head spins for the battle


    35. “Make sure you put them on when you are about to do head spins, that’s my move kid! That way, I’ll be there! I will be there in high spirits,” he said as he gave me a BRUG


    36. I held Bobs shoes up in the air and said, “Yep and I am bringing Bobs’ spirit with me to the battle, he will be rockin’ head spins Saturday night


    37. That’s why I have his shoes with me- Bob’s shoes will be revolving around in head spins tomorrow night!”


    38. Between battling the HHB’s and Boogie Bob being in the hospital and having to rock out the head spins for our crew that night – I was all atwitter


    39. “Not so loud, I didn’t have a chance to tell everyone yet, besides … he is here … well, kind of … he gave me his shoes that he uses when he does his head spins and he told me to wear them when it was time to do head spins


    40. I quickly responded, “What I was trying to say is that Bob had given me his shoes that he rocks out his head spins with, and I will be doing the head spins tonight while wearing his shoes

    41. I hope that he will be out of the hospital soon though, but for tonight my brother, I am the one rockin’ out the head spins for the NSR’s … along with the spirit of Boogie Bob and his shoes


    42. Miguel loved to rock power moves with style, so he threw in high shouldered spins on his back for an artistic transition in between his hydraulic nutcrackers


    43. I even started singing quietly to myself almost as a joke, “I’m going to rock these head spins … in my boogie shoes


    44. It was their guy I had seen last Saturday jamming head spins from across the room; I recognized his pony tail coming out of his knit hat


    45. He had re-ocked out with his cee-ock out but deep down, I knew, I needed to execute Bobs head spins before it was all said and done


    46. “We’ve got it so far,” I told her but actually I was thinking we were in a tie and that included me factoring in my head spins that I hadn’t rocked yet


    47. Fandango had rocked out dozens of air flares and halos but for whatever reason, he never did straight up head spins


    48. “We’ve got the head spins brau,” Angelo spat with condescending eyes


    49. I pushed fiercely onto my head and began tapping myself around into tap head spins


    50. Even though I was in the midst of breakin’, even though I was spinning around on my head, I was clearly thinking to myself as I revolved around: I did it! I made it! I transitioned into head spins from windmills! Something I had only done but a couple of times before in my basement during practice sessions








































    1. " She spun by him and up the steps to the front room


    2. Travis spun back on his heel, whistling a tune about sunshine


    3. Before she could react any further, Scar spun free of her sword and kicked out, catching Silence in the stomach and sending her flying backward


    4. He spun around and began to interrogate her angel sister


    5. I spun on the vortex of man-made tornadoes, and


    6. He spun her round, stepped towards her, took the lead, and off they sped,


    7. They were all grateful when the huge fans turned off and slowly spun down


    8. Johnny spun round slowly on the heels lf his patent leather shoes


    9. She spun webs of


    10. as he spun the car through sluicing puddle and gravitational turn

    11. Virginity sucks, she thought, and spun round once on the


    12. The ball flew straight and true, right into the back of the batter as he spun away trying to avoid being hit


    13. He got yanked and spun in two directions at once


    14. The bottle spun off the tray and skittered across the floor of my cell, coming to rest against the back wall by the slops bucket


    15. The rent and burning alien hull spun down on top of their heads and Tig wanted more than anything else to run, but there was nowhere to go


    16. It spun at them, and as Tig watched the dying alien ship falling on them like a terrible illustration of inevitability, the fear left him like a rat jumping ship


    17. Just before he closed the door he spun round and fixed Menachem with a long, hard stare


    18. She spun webs of silver thread through the evening air, always making direct eye contact, always drawing him in towards her desperate need for love on this particular night


    19. He wore eye-liner as black as coal, and constantly flipped the sun visor up and down to check his reflection in the mirror as he spun the car through sluicing puddle and gravitational turn


    20. Magicians spun the world around,

    21. Then the water burst into spray and Desa shrieked as three loops of tentacle spun around the stick and yanked it from her hand


    22. Following his direction, I spun round and instantly collided with the crazy bus driver in all his swaggering mass


    23. Miss Jones spun around in an anti-clockwise direction when the young man’s shoulder hit her left arm with all the force and momentum of a battering ram


    24. He snatched her up, spun her around, remembered doing that with Desa in front of the front door


    25. ‘They are washed and dyed over there before being brought through to here and spun


    26. There was an immediate low guttural growl from Kai as he spun around, hand on his sword


    27. She spun round


    28. Ali spun on one leg as if in a dance


    29. " She spun and kept going, only hugging him on the way by


    30. Look!' I spun round expecting the worst but at that moment the Delfini cut the air with its now familiar horn announcing the arrival of the Princess of Stephanos

    31. One lakh and ten thousand, the number spun in my head


    32. He spun, he had to walk away


    33. She spun around and leaned against the balcony


    34. She spun around and seized K’nada, unsheathed his blade and leaped through the air slicing thru imagined enemies swinging the blade with lightening speed


    35. As she landed she spun about and faced them


    36. She then spun around and marched directly to the Captain and Alexei


    37. And with that Alexei whipped around, grabbed Altera, and spun her off her feet


    38. She shouldn’t have looked at that, it really spun her stomach this morning


    39. “You are advancing very well my love,” she spun and shot out her leg catching him off guard


    40. Tarak growled at this and Rayne spun around, hands on hips

    41. line so that it wouldn’t break and then he hauled and spun for all he


    42. Before anyone could warn her, Lord Boras had spun around and grabbed her, holding his dagger to her throat


    43. Boras spun around and struck her with such force that she went spinning to the ground


    44. Naria simply stepped aside, spun around raising her sword as she did, and took his head as he passed


    45. The young man leaped out of bed and spun his mother round by


    46. Agilely avoiding his embrace, she smiled her thanks and spun out of the room


    47. Chrissie landed winded and for a moment the world spun


    48. 'Whoosh,' water spun into the bowl and after swirling round and around, disappeared into the drain at the bottom, then gradually refilled itself with clear water until it was again as it first appeared


    49. ‘Grinly spun on his heel, ‘Get that offal-bag out of


    50. She spun round sharply, taken off balance – she’d not heard him coming along the path













































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    Synonyms for "spin"

    spin tailspin twirl twist twisting whirl spin out gyrate reel spin around birl wind weave shape draw out ride drive run turn revolve rotate pirouette gyre tell narrate relate

    "spin" definitions

    a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)


    the act of rotating rapidly


    a short drive in a car


    rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral


    a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion)


    revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis


    stream in jets, of liquids


    cause to spin


    make up a story


    form a web by making a thread


    work natural fibers into a thread


    twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation


    prolong or extend