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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pinwheel .
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Examples
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The men pinwheeled in the air before falling in heaps on the sandbar or splashing down into the water.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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His arms pinwheeled, and he bent at the waist and lunged forward.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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The men pinwheeled in the air before falling in heaps on the sandbar or splashing down into the water.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Their moth bodies pinwheeled down from the porch light.
The Double Summer Robinson 2011
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The men pinwheeled in the air before falling in heaps on the sandbar or splashing down into the water.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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His arms pinwheeled, and he bent at the waist and lunged forward.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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The men pinwheeled in the air before falling in heaps on the sandbar or splashing down into the water.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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McCoy pinwheeled through the air, and was briefly shaken up.
Redskins-Eagles, Best and Worst Dan Steinberg 2010
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She pinwheeled, the knives catching and breaking the terrors as they flung themselves at her.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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He pinwheeled fifteen feet through the air, his face a study in wonder, spinning, legs and arms extended, defying gravity as he sailed.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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