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  • verb Present participle of pinwheel.

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Examples

  • Dante raked a hand through his hair, blue flames pinwheeling along his fingers.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • But before she could swing her fist forward, the prowler screamed and staggered backward, pinwheeling past Fancy and then crashing into the vanity.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • They suggest a type of slipstream— Her words were silenced by an enormous judder, which snapped the bridge around in a dizzying spin, hurling Voktra, Commander Marist, the chairman and everyone else pinwheeling across consoles and slamming painfully into walls and pillars.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • They suggest a type of slipstream— Her words were silenced by an enormous judder, which snapped the bridge around in a dizzying spin, hurling Voktra, Commander Marist, the chairman and everyone else pinwheeling across consoles and slamming painfully into walls and pillars.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Dante raked a hand through his hair, blue flames pinwheeling along his fingers.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • But before she could swing her fist forward, the prowler screamed and staggered backward, pinwheeling past Fancy and then crashing into the vanity.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • But before she could swing her fist forward, the prowler screamed and staggered backward, pinwheeling past Fancy and then crashing into the vanity.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • After weeks of pinwheeling, Romneybot's cursor unfroze and executed the PRESSAVAILABILITY function, indicating that he won't support the debt ceiling agreement reached this weekend.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Congress' Manic Last-Minute Debt Maneuvering Eliot Nelson 2011

  • Dante raked a hand through his hair, blue flames pinwheeling along his fingers.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • But before she could swing her fist forward, the prowler screamed and staggered backward, pinwheeling past Fancy and then crashing into the vanity.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

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