Sentences with 'spinning'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spinning and other words derived from it.
• « By the end of the 19th century, a single "mule" (a spinning invention linked to steam power in 1803) could produce yarn 200 to 300 times faster than could be done by hand. By 1850, Britain was producing 200 times more cotton cloth than in 1780. »
• « A friend of his, the American David Schramm, recalls that after a lecture in New York he took the Hawkings to a party in Greenwich Village, where Stephen had a great time dancing with his wife and spinning his wheelchair around the room. »
• « The precession of the equinoxes, a phenomenon by which the Earth rotates around itself and around the Sun like a spinning top, is the reason why the astrologers' Aries point has been located in Aquarius for the last 2,000 years. The resulting shift of all the zodiacal signs was either not noticed - and in that case astrology has been in error for twenty centuries - or it was noticed, and then astrology went from error to deception without further ado. »