Whirligig

Definition

whirligig /'wɜ:ligÇg/ n ၁။ ဂ်င္။ ၂။ = ROUND- ABOUT n ၂

Examples

1. ‘Fun things include making whirligigs
2. first-place ribbons
3. preserves
4. and jams along with staging your own fair.’
5. ‘While stopped at a red light
6. the Mrs. noticed a few strange whirligigs perched atop a billboard.’
7. ‘Hellboy takes us to extravagant places of doom replete with giant geared contraptions
8. blazing electromagnetic whirligigs
9. and daggers that shoot out from walls and floors: a haunted-house look that is pure fun.’
10. ‘From whirligigs to stereoscopes
11. from toy soldiers to toy kitchens
12. from horse-drawn fire engines to subway cars
13. the New York Historical Society houses many toys illustrative of their day and the children who played with them.’
14. ‘A decorative arts gallery features the association's excellent scrimshaw collection as well as furniture
15. needlework
16. silver
17. whirligigs
18. lightship baskets
19. and sailors' valentines.’
20. ‘For a few hours I was a kid again
21. reliving memories sparked by the dozens of puppets and paintings
22. quilts and carvings
23. weather vanes and whirligigs that combined my two earliest passions - baseball and art.’
24. ‘Her Uncle Ob
25. a disabled World War II veteran
26. enjoys creating art sculptures in the form of whirligigs and her Aunt May enjoys gardening.’
27. ‘Behind the cross
28. crude propeller blades on whirligigs made by local artist R A Miller and planted on Windy Hill
29. spin and twirl on gusty days.’
30. ‘The wide range of works includes quilts
31. rugs
32. paintings
33. works on paper
34. weather vanes
35. decoys
36. and painted furniture.’
37. ‘Most buyers have been delighted by the awkward charms of the animal cutouts nailed to his spinning whirligigs
38. figures of the red and black devils
39. crude portraits of Elvis Presley and President Abraham Lincoln.’
40. ‘By 1988
41. when we devoted our February issue to the museum's holdings
42. its folk sculptures included carousel animals
43. trade signs
44. and some forty tobacconists' figures of all sizes and types.’
45. ‘One of those rotatory entertainments commonly seen in fairs
46. and known by the name of ‘whirligigs’ or ‘roundabouts’.’
47. ‘Finally how fragile it is - choreography that is here today usually is gone tomorrow
48. lost in either the whirligig of fashion or the roulette-wheel of luck.’
49. ‘The whirligig of fashion trends dictated that the look of Zandra back in the Seventies is exactly the look of 2002-gypsy flounces
50. boots and floaty hippie blouses and dippy hemlines.’
51. ‘I chose to read this edited collection piecemeal as I attempted to cling on board the whirligig of a new teaching year.’
52. ‘But then stranger things happen every day in the whirligig of Taiwan life.’
53. ‘Against the backdrop of Lewis Castle
54. a whirligig of ceilidhs
55. concerts and workshops takes place.’
56. ‘The piece is a political whirligig but also a play of ideas
57. about the politics of life as much as the life of politics