spinning
spinnings
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pluralof spinning.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012
Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2010
Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Plumie ship must have seen the rocket flares, but it continued to dance, coming nearer and ever nearer in seemingly heedless and purposeless plungings and spinnings in star-speckled space.
From The Aliens by H. R. van Dongen
