gyroscopein a sentence
- The gyroscopes enable us to maintain precise orientation while digging the tunnel.
- The missile had a gyroscopic failure.
- She re-orients herself as quickly as a gyroscope.
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To "GYRE" is to go round and round like a gyroscope.
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gyroscope = a rotating mechanism that looks a little like the children's toy that is called a "top"
- And just as I was finally starting to catch on to magnetism, gyroscopic particles, and zero-point energy, I felt someone standing behind me.† (source)
- Gyroscopic crystals in the binoculars hummed slightly as they stabilized the optics and swept the area in a programmed search pattern.† (source)
- The hours go by and you lose your gyroscope; your mind starts to roam.† (source)
- I felt like one of those gyroscope toys, spinning and wobbling as I crossed the narrow plank.† (source)
- Rising on a rock face was cause for an inner jubilation that, perhaps because it could not find an exit past the discipline and caution necessary to stay on, spun like the gleaming armature of an electric motor and stabilized the soul of the climber as surely as if it had been a gyroscope.† (source)
- In the back of the drawer you could find a magnifying glass, a kaleidoscope, and a gyroscope kept in a black buckram box, which he would set dancing for us on a string pulled tight.† (source)
- He was a gyroscope of blows, a whirlwind of destruction. (source)
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- The windwagon rocked gently on its way, the rumble of the great wheel and the hum of the main gyroscope a lu! ling background noise.† (source)
- From where he stood, panting from exertion, the Consul could hear the snap of pennants far above and a steady, almost subsonic hum that would be coming from either the ship's interior flywheel or its massive gyroscopes.† (source)
- They're the gyroscope that stabilizes the rocket plane of state on its unswerving course.† (source)
- Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.† (source)
- Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.† (source)
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