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How to use reeled in a sentence

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At China's Hang Zhou Silk Factory, the yarn is reeled, graded, color coded by a temporary dye, twisted, washed and wound into skeins.
A flash of pain traced a thin course across his chest and he reeled backward to sprawl in the twilit clearing.
As he opened the door, a dank musky air hit them full force, and both of them reeled back visibly from the smell and sight of the room.
I reeled it in, took it off my line, tossed it back in, re-baited my line, tossed it back in too, and promptly fell asleep again.
The Royalists set to and the Scots reeled and staggered but they held out and were joined by the Scots' second line and the Royalists fell back.
He reeled backwards, losing his footing, stumbling behind one of the buildings.
The prison guard reeled back, staggering a few steps and struggling to reach for his saber.
The little man reeled, stumbled, got to his feet again, one callused hand pressed against his face.
An explosion of pain blinded me as I reeled and staggered, trying vainly to catch my balance.
He shouted as the man reeled away from Rubiss, staggering to one knee under the force of the blow.
He reeled away with the force of the impact, before staggering slightly and regaining balance.
Olga Knipper-Chekhova reeled back in shock and collapsed behind the curtain in confusion and terror.
The cat reeled backwards violently, clamping the collar of Maryn's tunic in its jaw.
The screen fades to green, and the names of all 336 tributaries are slowly reeled off, in apparent contrast to the vagaries of story-telling.
Shocked, I reeled away in horror, fearing that some passing stranger might take me for a rubber fetishist, a thought that appals and revolts me.
When Sonny did embark on a comeback he went to Europe and reeled off a series of wins against some non-threatening pugilists.
West pressed the black button, which reeled in the wire without demagnetising the hook, and he was lifted off his feet and up the air-vent.
Six months later, no one has reeled the big boy in, but the gunslinger remains cautiously optimistic.
Eventually they were reeled in by the bigger teams but finished very creditably in the top quarter of the table.
Her mind reeled back an hour, to when she'd been standing in Rick's office as he reamed her a new one.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Sometimes I have seen the beginning of a folktale in a fragment of narrative reeled off by a Gypsy on the spur of the moment.
Pepsy rose to her feet with a start, reeled, reached for a tree, and clutched it.
A depth charge was exploded so near that the hunted U-boat reeled and quivered under the shock.
Before them was Life, but Life so hideously and abysmally alien that their brains reeled in horror.
A second stab of sparky flame split the darkness and Robideau reeled back into the arms of his panicky soldiers.
Chris reeled back, teetered on the edge of nothingness, then went tumbling crazily down into the sand-trap behind.
His brain reeled, but he could not doubt it or palter over it for a moment.
He reeled like a drunkard, sapped of strength, and then the end came quickly.
There was a crash of riflery very close at hand, the mule plunged, and she reeled backwards with a little cry.
He had reeled, had paused as he caught and steadied himself, had gone on drunkenly.
In the shape of a man he reeled, but it was not the shape of a man that struck the loam.
And I saw that in a flash, even as he reeled back from the menhir and staggered.
Jean entered the room in such an exhausted state that he reeled as if he had been drunk.
He bowed before the pure, unordered, untempered feminine, and his masculine mind reeled.
On his face was an expression of querulous surprise as he reeled to the fall.
So I reeled in my line, laid the rod down in the boat and gave my entire attention to watching the operations of the fish hawk.
We had reached the middle and were right in the vortex, when suddenly she reeled in her saddle.
After half an hour the ouananiche begins to grow tired and can be reeled in near to the boat.
Then such a delirium of silly laughter overtook him that he reeled about like a drunken man, and presently fetched up against one of our wires.
Then in Sweden he plunged into a snowbank, dug himself out and reeled off an amazing seven fastest stage times in succession to finish ninth.
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