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Meanings of spinning top in English
Synonyms
Examples for "top"
Examples for "top"
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Outside the top 100 stocks however, the market was in good shape.
2
So just top line question; is wearing sunscreen still a good idea?
3
The French president Emmanuel Macron said the crisis must top the agenda.
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Yet the impact on investment banks' top lines was far from positive.
5
Myth: State schools are no good at getting children into top universities.
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She opened it, and stepped out of the humdrum into the whirligig.
2
The centrifuge was inspired by a simple spinning toy called a whirligig.
3
To him the compass must have been a profound and awful whirligig.
4
My, he thought, how many years since I played with a whirligig.
5
The case may have hidden the whirligig aspects of the timepiece.
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A fellow must have some reward for making a teetotum of himself.
2
The Labour Members also believe; and tremble like a falling teetotum.
3
Father Brown started and spun half round like an absurd teetotum.
4
I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum.
5
She raises her hands to heaven, she spins round like a little teetotum.
Usage of spinning top in English
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.
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After all, what was he, what was human striving everywhere, but a vainly spinning top.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is seen in the ordinary spinning top, which stands erect in its capacity of a gyroscope revolving horizontally.