SPOOL in a Sentence

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For SPOOL, below is one of 5 sentences:
Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPOOL
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spool
 n.  a piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon
Classic Sentence:
1  We split the ball open with the hatchet, and there was a spool in it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
2  When Carol went there, for the last time, she found Olaf's chariot with its red spool wheels standing in the sunny corner beside the stable.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  A lumber-wagon, its long green box filled with large spools of barbed-wire fencing, creaked down the block.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  The two friends played with an imperial chariot which Miles had made out of a starch-box and four red spools; together they stuck switches into a mouse-hole, with vast satisfaction though entirely without known results.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
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