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revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy
How To Use spin around In A Sentence
- The boat started to spin around in the water.
- Another guest describes a patient who thought he was a spinning top, or teetotum, and liked to spin around, at which the guest prepares to demonstrate before being interrupted by another table guest who whispers into his ear.
- During his spin around Phoenix, the ambassador remarked that the climate and surroundings reminded him of home.
- But … then … in an ASTONISHING display of rhetorical contortionism … you IMMEDIATELY spin around and righteously and arbitrarily CONDEMN another group of human beings – homosexuals, as you choose to put it … Think Progress » Controversial Florida Politician Unsure If Muslims Should Hold Public Office, Says He’d ‘Prefer’ If Gays Stayed Out
- The walls of the glen loomed dark and heavy above and overhead the stars seemed to spin around him.
- _ From this point Dante watches the universe spin around him, until "she who doth emparadise my soul" draws aside the veil of mortality, and allows him to perceive nine concentric spheres of multitudinous angels constantly revolving around a dazzling point while singing "Hosanna! The Book of the Epic
- Unlike a piston engine, where reciprocating parts move up and down, the twin rotors in the Mazda just spin around.
- The boat started to spin around in the water.
- The pool of blood and tears began to spin around.
- It takes Pluto 248 Earth years to spin around the Sun.