Example Sentences

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"In a sense you've got that central gathering point...like the castle in the Magic Kingdom...with different lands like spokes on a wheel, radiating out."

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025

Alabama stuck a stick in the spokes of the juggernaut by pulling Clingan away from the basket and burying 3-pointers.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2024

The news of the tuba thefts formed a jumping-off point for the artist Alison O’Daniel, who used it as the central hub in a wheel with many spokes.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024

The prison’s design, five long cellblocks that meet at a rotunda like spokes of a wheel, was inspired by the famous Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2024

One of the spokes rose a few feet above the water, and we straddled it.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin