Examples of reel

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Sailplanes are often launched by means of half a mile or so of wire, reeled in by a winch.
He is always restless, and reels with a natural intoxication.
In addition to these 'rhythmic spirituals', hard-driving rhythms were also found in a style of gospel singing and clapping known as 'rocking and reeling'.
A while later, the cat staggered into the kitchen, reeled about, then collapsed on the floor.
I am burying a dream-bone, leaving it for later, incubating an innuendo, lying it real, reeling it in right.
To make silk, the filaments from several cocoons are unwound and reeled together, resulting in fibres of extraordinary strength.
Although yarn continued to be reeled for the dyers, weaving departments largely took their yarn unreeled.
Rather, the yarn is reeled off the silkworm cocoon by a process which is known as 'throwing'.
The moral relativist reels off numerous differences between cultures in order to show the objectivist wrong.
An angler of mass 80 kg standing on a riverbank is slowly reeling in a 15 kg fish at the end of a line.
In fact, as the crisis deepened, many mills had to close down and others rapidly reduced workers in winding and reeling.
The older man, his masculinity challenged by physical decline, is reeling from the onslaught of his son.
Meanwhile, our bearings are hurled into temporary flux as the telescope begins reeling against the walls behind it.
The rear computer is responsible for the cable reeling control system, the mobility and steering (traction) control system, and for controlling the environmental monitoring package.
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