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a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
he got a bright red top and string for his birthday
How To Use spinning top In A Sentence
- Children's games include kite-flying, spinning tops, yo-yos, and hobbyhorses.
- A dreidel is a four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side. News for Opelika-Auburn News
- Yet more of them leap up ever higher, their legs scissoring the air as they hover like so many hummingbirds in baggy T-shirts and tights, and a dozen or so pirouette dizzyingly, like human spinning tops.
- Another offering is from toy giant Hasbro with spinning tops made of five parts known as ‘Beyblades’.
- The dreidel is a four-sided spinning top, the favorite child's toy during Chanukah. Uncomfortably numb
- 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.
- Sandro Botticelli s chart of hell is like a mushroom cloud or a child s spinning top.
- Around the adjacent display of scientifically-valuable spinning tops and dinosaur models stood a man buttonholing people to get signatures on a petition to save the place.
- Louise is also hoping to branch out and offer party bags, ice-cream tubs in the summer and traditional toys, such as yo-yos and spinning tops.
- Kids are bound to fall in love with the tiny magic tops, which turn around after starting to spin, spinning tops with strings and toothpicks with colourful, painted heads.