A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.
1 I came to in a moment, my heart whirling like a spinning top .
2 The one that whirls around like a spinning top is hardcooked.
3 It consisted of a tin man mounted on a spinning top .
4 Thrusters reverse, let's retreat and make like a spinning top .
5 After all, what was he, what was human striving everywhere, but a vainly spinning top .
6 And in spite of his acting like a spinning top , Sasha loved being with him.
7 But the answer was found-inthe spinning top .
8 A small iron cannon ball spun into the road like a spinning top , scattering the dust.
9 So he went down to the eleven-and-six-cent store to buy a spinning top for his brother.
10 Atoms spin, not unlike a child's spinning top .
11 I want a spinning top that I can make go around when I lie down in bed.
12 This could help shed light on how the asteroid developed its characteristic " spinning top " shape.
13 Upstairs in the pastor's study, Muller sat in the armchair attentively watching the gyrations of a spinning top .
14 Its sense of casual and careless calm, too, seemed to him only the rest of a spinning top .
15 One of the toys topping the list in the State is Beyblades, a twist on the traditional spinning top .
16 It is seen in the ordinary spinning top , which stands erect in its capacity of a gyroscope revolving horizontally.
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