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How to use revolving in a sentence

29 example sentences · adjective, noun

Revolving means moving around a central point. Example: “Molly's myriorama fuses these elements— spectacle and drama, commentary and song— in her complex, revolving mental kaleidescope.”

More sentences with revolving

  • Molly's myriorama fuses these elements— spectacle and drama, commentary and song— in her complex, revolving mental kaleidescope.1994, Richard Pearce, Molly Blooms: A Polylogue on "Penelope" and Cultural Studies, page 126. From the entry myriorama
  • Tea was a very special institution, revolving as it did around the ceremony and worship of Toast.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16. From the entry tea
  • The panarama's like being inside a videodrome of revolving landscapes by Thomas Moran.1991, “Reforming the Forests of the Interior West”, in Forest Watch, volume 12, page lxxxvii. From the entry videodrome
  • One end had three long tines and the other had a revolving wheel with a toothed rim.1967, Franklin W. Dixon, Hardy Boys 47: Mystery of the Whale Tattoo. From the entry jagging wheel
  • Built-up weights in the wheels balance the revolving and 50 per cent of the reciprocating weight.1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class "5" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 400. From the entry built-up
  • Another interesting exhibit was a bread cutter with circular revolving blade.1920, Hotel Monthly, volume 28, numbers 322-333, page 29. From the entry cuber
  • We've had 14 Secretaries of State through the revolving door in the first 23 years of this century.2023 June 28, Anthony Smith talks to Paul Clifton, “The industry has to go back to basics”, in RAIL, number 986, page 40. From the entry revolving door
  • A revolving credit may also be cumulative.2020, Rupnarayan Bose, Letters of Credit: Theory and Practice. From the entry revolvement
  • In case of a non-automatic revolving credit, the issuing bank must amend the credit each time a revolvement is due.2016, Kim Sindberg, From A to UCP: Key Documentary Credit concepts explained, page 194. From the entry revolvement
  • That news isn't new, but Deloitte noted that screenaholics are going to impact business models revolving around the Internet of Things.2016 December 12, Larry Dignan, “Consumers check smartphones more than 9 billion times a day and enable new businesses”, in ZDNET…. From the entry screenaholic
  • Smilers can expect tweets revolving around Miley's dogs, hit new album Bangerz and selfies with her classic tongue pose.2014, "People to add to your timeline in 2014", The Vidette (Illinois State University), Volume 126, Number 63, 16 January 2014, page 14. From the entry smiler
  • In equal machining of cylindrical cam's groove, roughcast of cylindrical cam is clamped in revolving spindle of NC milling machine.2009, Bo Zhao, Xipeng Xu, Advances in grinding and abrasive technology XV. From the entry milling machine
  • We passed this revolving door legislation here.1988 June 29, William L. Dickinson, Hearings before the full committee and the Acquisition Policy Panel, Committee on Armed Service (US…. From the entry step on a rake
  • Murray's niterie in New York introduced the revolving dance floor.1980, Ronald L. Morris, Wait Until Dark: Jazz and the Underworld, 1880-1940, Bowling Green University Popular Press, page 21. From the entry niterie
  • Kellogg and her think alikes more nearly to death than the prospect of installing a revolving door in their bedrooms.1978 April 22, Nancy Walker, “Taking Issue with 'Our Right to Love'”, in Gay Community News, page 5. From the entry thinkalike
  • The revolving drum, 12 inches in diameter, was black japanned, on a turned wooden base, and there were many coloured strips.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 183. From the entry japan
  • Brown became overlord of much domestic policy in what Hennessy described as 'a bistellar administration with policy constellations revolving around the two stars'.2016, Anthony Seldon, Jonathan Meakin, The Cabinet Office, 1916–2018: The Birth of Modern Government. From the entry bistellar
  • Most men don't make enough money to buy all the tools they need all at once, which is why God invented revolving debt.2005, W. Bruce Cameron, How to Remodel a Man, page 127. From the entry why God invented
  • The air is circulated—up from the floor and down again through the ice-bunkers, by revolving fans connected with wind-driven rotors on the roofs.1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683. From the entry wind-driven
  • I thought he was rather foolish when he selected the revolving door instead of taking the orthodox push-pull door at the side.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35. From the entry push-pull
  • Prison reform and the rehabilitation of prisoners need to be part of the fight against crime, since it is critical that revolving door syndromes of criminality be arrested.2005 September 28, Patrick Manning, Parliamentary Hansard of Trinidad and Tobago, archived from the original on 07 May 2021, page 34. From the entry revolving door syndrome
  • The revolving door metes out the aromas as two platinum-grey old dames totter in, rouged up to the eyeballs, expelling several door-compartmentsful of intense coffee aroma onto the street.2004, The Hungarian Quarterly - Issues 173-176, page 71. From the entry compartmentful
  • In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows.2003, Robert J. Shimonski et al., Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks, Syngress, page 50. From the entry revolve around
  • Peelers with knife blades mounted in the outside walls of a revolving drum in which the product is tumbled have a similar effect as an abrasion peeler.1991, David Arthey, Colin Dennis, Vegetable Processing, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry peeler
  • Spinning arrows may be used instead of revolving wheels for telling fortunes; and, on the lighter side, cyclomancy has survived in various parlor games, such as "spin the bottle."1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published…. From the entry cyclomancy
  • A more recent work is his Devil Trap; a three-dimensional revolving construction painted with words intended to confuse the devil who is unable to read sdrawkcab.1972, Outposts, numbers 63–75, Kraus, page 25. From the entry sdrawkcab
  • Racing means the turning up, cutting or dressing of a revolving grindstone at the factory before the grindstone is brought into use for the first time.[1932, “No. 343. Metal Grinding Industries (Silicosis) Scheme”, in Statutory Rules and Orders, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office…. From the entry race
  • It's been rough today and I truly haven't seen anything happening on the internet in the last 48 hours because I've been stuck in a revolving door of bad news.2023 February 16, @ChaiCiLatte, Twitter, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2024. From the entry destim
  • From there I kept up doing Photoshops revolving around things said on The Five, or my other favorite show, Red Eye, with plenty of Jasper adventures thrown in the mix.2016 October, Dana Perino, quoting FiveFan [pseudonym], “Introducing @FiveFanPhotoshops”, in Let Me Tell You about Jasper… How My Best…. From the entry photoshop

Meaning of revolving

  1. adjective Moving around a central point.
  2. adjective Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.
  3. noun The act of something that revolves or turns.

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Questions about revolving in a sentence

How do you use revolving in a sentence?
Revolving is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Molly's myriorama fuses these elements— spectacle and drama, commentary and song— in her complex, revolving mental kaleidescope.”
What is a short sentence with revolving?
“A revolving credit may also be cumulative.”
What does revolving mean?
Revolving means moving around a central point.

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