humming top
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Artur has got a new humming top--oh my, how it dances.
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Kay glanced at the huge, humming top that filled the center of the laboratory.
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Dainty señoritas trip across the way in red-heeled slippers of Cinderella-like proportions, while noisy, laughing, happy children, girls and boys, romp with pet dogs, trundle ribbon-decked hoops, or spin gaudy humming tops.
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"Come and have another dance?" and he flew round and round like a humming top.
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The prospect dazzled him; his wits spun like a humming top.
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