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Origin of balance spring

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby balance spring

balance of trade, balance pipe, balancer, balance shaft, balance sheet, balance spring, balance staff, balance the books, balance weight, balance wheel, Balanchine

How to use balance spring in a sentence

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.
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Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.
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A constant sense of easy balance should be developed through poising exercises.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
Children's Ways|James Sully
I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.
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