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How to use spool in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Spool means a reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle. Example: “I wound up the spool of rope.”

Examples of spool by meaning

nounA reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.

  • If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice

More sentences with spool

  • I wound up the spool of rope.From the entry wind up
  • The large rotational inertia of the heavy compressor and turbine rotors makes the engine slow to spool up from idle.From the entry spool up
  • The wire was prewound around the spools.From the entry prewind
  • The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets.2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor…. From the entry lairiness
  • Yes, I am spoon and spool, milk and needle harvesting quiet by the momentful.2001, Abacus, page 140. From the entry momentful
  • With that, Mikhail sat down to place spools of thread on the serger, studying the directions and clearly dismissing her.2010, Cait London, Instinctive Male, page 158. From the entry serger
  • The reels have spooled into a sargasso of celluloid; a projector stares from the end of the closet.2007, Steve Erickson, chapter 68, in Zeroville: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Open Road…. From the entry sargasso
  • Position a film horse on the left hand side and free unbent split spools on a rewind arm on the right.1976, John Burder, 16mm Film Cutting, page 86. From the entry film horse
  • The mammiferous secretary slithered in, changed the spool and slithered out again, giving me a small, hygienic smile en route.1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 53. From the entry mammiferous
  • After de yarn was spin, it was reeled off de spools into hanks and then took to de warper.1936–1938, W. W. Dixon, quoting Dan Smith, “Dan Smith: Ex-slave 75 Years [Project #1655]”, in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery…. From the entry woof
  • After the twisting is completed the finished yarn is wound on small spools, known as cheesers, to be weighed.1920, Pacific Ports - Volume 3, page 64. From the entry cheeser
  • In free-spool mode, the main drag is disengaged, so the spool revolves against minimal resistance, feeding line to a fish that has taken your bait.2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies, page 101. From the entry main drag
  • I could almost feel the clear spool when the game turned, headed along the beach, and I footraced him for line, and won.1920 March, R. W. Swearingen, “That Eighty-seven Pound Weakfish”, in H[enr]y S. Watson, editor, Field and Stream, 24th year, number 11…. From the entry footrace
  • They were ancient industrial Singers, made of iron and brass and strung with heavy cotton binding thread that fed like spider webs from spools perched on tall twin spindles.2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 288. From the entry singer
  • The prepeg was taken out from a spool and cut perpendicular to the fiber axis to form a postform (8 mm x 25 mm x 40 mm).1989, Basic Research in Superconductor, Ceramic, and Semiconductor Sciences at Selected Japanese Laboratories. From the entry postform
  • The Committee is actually registered as a business, the authorities said, a thread from the spool of legitimacy to go along with the hard hats, the clipboards and the videocameras.2008 March 1, Jim Dwyer, “Outlining an Operation That Preyed on Builders”, in New York Times. From the entry videocamera

Meaning of spool

  1. noun A reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.
  2. noun One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.
  3. noun A temporary storage area for electronic mail, etc.

Full definition of spool

Questions about spool in a sentence

How do you use spool in a sentence?
Spool is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I wound up the spool of rope.”
What is a short sentence with spool?
“I wound up the spool of rope.”
What does spool mean?
Spool means a reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.

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