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Spokes in sentence

12 examples of Spokes in a sentence

Bicycles fly everywhere, wheels roll past you, spokes end up in awkward places.
We sat there and compared wheels and tires and spokes and tubes.
Prisoners stepped on 24 spokes of a large paddle wheel.
So think of a rimless wheel or a spoke wheel, but the spokes individually move in and out of the hub; so, it's a wheel-leg hybrid.
And it carefully plans the motion of the spokes and coordinates it so it can show this very impressive mobility.
This suggests that Chinese leaders have in mind a hub-and-spoke system, with China the hub and countries on its periphery the spokes.
And then on other roads we saw the teams of horses toiling and the dull gleam of the guns, and the men straining and swaying as they helped to turn the spokes in the deep, deep mud.
But I can say that Tom had no sooner finished speaking, than she pricked up her ears, and started forward at a speed which made the clay-coloured gig rattle until you would have supposed every one of the red spokes were going to fly out on the turf of Marlborough Downs; and even Tom, whip as he was, couldn't stop or check her pace, until she drew up of her own accord, before a roadside inn on the right-hand side of the way, about half a quarter of a mile from the end of the Downs.
The tall grass twined softly about the wheels and the horse's legs, leaving seeds on the wet spokes and hubs.
They were surrounded by men, women, and children, who sang a kind of lugubrious psalm, interrupted at regular intervals by the tambourines and cymbals; while behind them was drawn a car with large wheels, the spokes of which represented serpents entwined with each other.
From the tyres and spokes hung ragged pieces of flesh.
Her feet disappeared in their movements like the spokes of a rapidly turning wheel.