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Example sentences for "reels"

Lexicographically close words:
reeled; reeler; reelers; reeling; reelly; reely; reembarked; reenact; reenacted; reenforce
  1. Her puny mind reels with the desire to humiliate him.

  2. The man's brutality and meanness are suddenly revealed to her; her brain reels under the humiliation which she has brought upon herself.

  3. To dancing and jigging herself and Jack fell, and the pots and pans and the wheels and reels began to dance and jig over the floor, and the house jigged also.

  4. A brief description of the manufacture of 2 and 4 point Glidden wire is as follows:--Two coils of wire on reels are placed behind the machine, designed to form the main or strand wires of the fence.

  5. One or two coils of wire are placed on reels at either side of the machine for making 2 or 4 point wire respectively.

  6. Kansas City, had been making fishing reels in a small plant about 30 feet square.

  7. Two reels of motion pictures were shown through the country.

  8. It was her duty to keep the books, and keep them straight; to answer the telephone, and sometimes make purchases of reels of gold thread and of leather.

  9. All the looms were at their noisy spider work; reels of gold thread were ordered in twenties; the bobbins began to dance around the maypole, sewing-machines sang lustily; the telephone only ceased ringing to deliver messages.

  10. He canvassed the moving-picture theaters of the town and borrowed reels on which to wind his film when it was once ready for winding.

  11. Bill, you're the only one of the bunch that shirked, so you can carry this box of reels to the depot for me.

  12. Put your balls or reels of cotton into little bags, leaving the ends out.

  13. First Prize for Reels asleep on top of it!

  14. And here at Dunelin, where we danced reels till morning, on the night of the ball we gave, he danced everybody else down--except me.

  15. I learned a lovely Highland schottische, too; and after I had seen others dancing the reels (ought I to say foursomes or eightsomes?

  16. If he reels and falls backwards he will kill me,' she thought, but he did not fall.

  17. They might hire you for a picture with Carrington De Vire in it, and you can knock him kickin' in five reels or the like.

  18. He claims the guy which wrote the scenario escaped from a lunatic asylum and he plays the second two reels his own way.

  19. They was more adventures happened to Delancey Calhoun in them five reels than Robinson Crusoe, Columbus, Kit Carson and Davy Crockett had in their combined lives!

  20. Till the white moon reels in the cracking skies, And the ghosts of God arise.

  21. Each of these reels carries a differently coloured ribbon, which has been previously passed through one of the slits at the closed end of the funnel.

  22. On the block of wood arrange as many tiny reels as it will take.

  23. A travelling crane runs along the reels, and carries the reels from one box to another.

  24. Attached to this crane is a newly-invented hydraulic pump, by means of which the reels with the yarn on them can be lifted in a few seconds from one box to another.

  25. The next moment he reels forward blindly, like some slaughtered thing, and falls in a white and senseless heap upon the floor.

  26. Leslie Noble reels backward, stunned by the shuddering horror of that one word--"Dead!

  27. She reels dizzily, and only Colonel Lockhart's support prevents her from falling.

  28. Lawrence Campbell reels backward as if some invisible hand had smitten him across the face.

  29. It is the author's hope that the story of "Reels and Spindles" may aid some young readers to comprehend and make their own this beauty of simplicity and this charm of sympathy which are the outcome of unselfishness.

  30. Dora took out her reels and skeins, and placed them beside her pattern, and tried to imagine the effect of the different combination of color.

  31. Look, Agnes, look at these shining reels of gold and silver thread!

  32. It's like living in a "movie" when they are running the reels off fast.

  33. No wonder that the earth reels even to the roots of the mountains, as unable to endure that wrath!

  34. For my life is consumed with sorrow, And my years with sighing; My strength reels because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted.

  35. Dreamily she heard Del cry that the shaft behind the heap of reels was growing hot.

  36. All life looked hot and long; the reels would always be out of order; the overseer would never be kind.

  37. Del Ivory sat in a little open space, cushioned about with reels of cotton; she had a shallow gash upon her cheek; she was wringing her hands.

  38. Her reels had troubled her all the afternoon; the overseer was cross; the day was hot and long.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.