A large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement.
A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.
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Examples for "roundabout "
Examples for "roundabout "
1 Which was precisely his point, he supposed, in a long, roundabout way.
2 It seemed a mighty roundabout and dicey way to handle the problem.
3 MPs laughed as Cameron replied: You could say, in a roundabout way.
4 Sir, - The Leopardstown Road roundabout is an accident waiting to happen.
5 In a roundabout way I met the fellow who had the papers.
1 She had only minutes to get across the river to the carousel .
2 The next carousel screen showed seven images of Abulurd at varying ages.
3 The baggage carousel sounds a lot more fun than it actually is.
4 The trainee quickly pulled her luggage from the carousel to the doors.
5 It's a nice feeling, though, like being on a really slow carousel .
1 The barrel-organ accompanying the carrousel sent through the air its shrill jerky notes.
2 He showed the writer an earlier project, a replica of a turn-of-the-century carrousel .
3 The carrousel therefore contained the kitchen, dining, washing, and toilet facilities.
4 But today he broke this routine, and made his way back to the carrousel .
5 As the daylight starts to fade, he takes an extracurricular ride on the carrousel .
1 The merry - go - round of government formation could finally be coming to a halt.
2 Today I return to the merry - go - round of nutritional advice on healthy eating.
3 He is lost in a merry - go - round of universes, each different and strange.
4 The problem is with the boy and the girl on the merry - go - round .
5 In the distance he could still hear the music of the merry - go - round .
Object that spins or whirls.
1 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.
6 The danger in the curved path is an abrupt curve, a whirligig effect.
7 And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges-LouisXI.
8 She loved dominating the air currents in her great titanium whirligig .
9 Ministers and civil servants are locked in a whirligig of revolving door corruption.
10 The whirligig of time brings about strange revenges, for a truth.
11 However, watching the strange people he noted an entrance that resembled a whirligig .
12 How he loathed the impulse which had catapulted him into this mad whirligig !
13 Don't you see that Time is a whirligig , and all things come round?
14 Truly the whirligig of time brings in some strange revenges.
15 And yet the whirligig of time brings about its revenges.
16 Sooner or later the whirligig of time brings its revenges.
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