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UK
/pˈɪnwiːl/
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NOUN
- a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind
- a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire
- perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
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a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim
he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'
How To Use pinwheel In A Sentence
- The crisp dynamic shifts and organized flourishes whet your appetite for more of the same, especially during the radiant synth pinwheels of the chorus.
- Roadmap-patterned wallpaper lined the elevator's interior, and an array of pinwheels and movable disk sculptures were laid out on shelves.
- She pinwheeled end-over-end and out of sight as I hopped up and down, holding my right foot and grimacing like Oliver Hardy.
- I was 9 and learning the game from my father and grandfather; I pinwheeled my bat in imitation, and exuded joy every time I picked up my mitt.
- There was one TV image that I wish I hadn't seen - of some man jumping off one tower, arms and legs pinwheeling desperately in his last moments.
- Stop sparrows and finches from shredding crocus blossoms by placing foil pinwheels - the kind sold for children's Easter baskets - every few feet among the flowers.
- Zoe screeched and pinwheeled her arms as if trying to drive away a horde of mosquitoes, knocking his own arm down.
- The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, having pinwheel-shaped arms of gas, dust, and stars lying in a flattened disc, and extending directly out from a spherical nucleus of stars in the central region.
- He has photographed enough stellar nebula, white dwarfs and pinwheel galaxies to fill many a photo album.
- Dante raked a hand through his hair, blue flames pinwheeling along his fingers. Etched in Bone
