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  • verb UK Present participle of swivel.

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Examples

  • The driver peeeep'd the whistle atop the old engine, and Cal slowed his swivelling, waiting for the pat on his shoulders that signalled a stop.

    The creature in the coal Gill Hoffs 2011

  • Hula hoops (the gyrating exercise with plastic rings, not the crisps) are part of a popular fast-track programme swivelling thousands of hips into better shape.

    Hooping.org | Blog | Irish Get Hooping To Get In Shape 2009

  • Cable has only one hand on the swivelling spotlight while the other signs agreements to axe everything he promised to protect, because the money was vomited into the banking system and it seems impossible to recoup it from there.

    Watch Nick Clegg's lips? I'd rather not Victoria Coren 2010

  • The army made sporadic attempts to separate the two sides , swivelling the gun turrets of their tanks in an effort to disperse the skirmishing groups and pushing pro-Mubarak groups off a bridge over Tahrir Square, but the troops did not intervene decisively.

    US hatches Mubarak exit strategy as Egypt death toll mounts 2011

  • In the UK, Famously Fit Health and Fitness Magazine sent Jenny and Wayne to explore the rapidly growing fitness activity of hoopdance, and to see if all the hip swivelling could benefit couples looking to work out together.

    Hooping.org | Blog | Couples Hoop It Up Together To Get Famously Fit 2009

  • The journeymen with their swivelling eyes had readied him for some form of judgement on himself.

    Rachel Cusk | Portraits 2011

  • We lived together in a flat in Mayfair, but he never gave me a set of keys; one day I walked into his room to talk to him and he simply turned his back on me, swivelling his chair to stare silently out of the window.

    The Saturday interview: Jean Shrimpton 2011

  • Socrates had a pot-belly, a weird walk, swivelling eyes and hairy hands.

    Socrates ? a man for our times Bettany Hughes 2010

  • Hula hoops (the gyrating exercise with plastic rings, not the crisps) are part of a popular fast-track programme swivelling thousands of hips into better shape.

    Hooping.org | Blog 2009

  • The action flicks between the two, so that everyone has to keep swivelling to follow the plot, and swirls around those members of the audience who are perched on bar stools or standing.

    Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010

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