How to Use spool in a Sentence

spool

1 of 2 noun

• Use a sponge brush to dab paint on the spool.
  — Janna Oberdorf, Parents, 15 Dec. 2025
• That same spool is oversized, so line should peel off on the cast.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 Mar. 2020
• Add a rod and reel, a spool of line, and a boat, dock or shoreline.
  — Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• That’s where the mass of threads that spool and hang from the paintings come in.
  — Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
• With each bite, the meat came unraveled, like a spool of thread.
  — Malcolm Mayhew, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Having those spools loose in your pack, though, is a nightmare.
  — Francesca Krempa, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
• What about the spools on the wall above the twin beds — so quirky and engaging.
  — Mimi Read, House Beautiful, 9 May 2016
• Instead, part of the crane broke, which sent the spool crashing to the ground.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
• Cohen had her tear the bread open; there were three spools of thread, baked inside.
  — Cody Delistraty, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2019
• The answers came out typed on a paper ribbon fed from a big spool.
  — PCMAG, 14 Feb. 2023
• Someone picks up a metal spool and clangs it against the table.
  — Sara Tatyana Bernstein, Longreads, 10 Mar. 2022
• Hold the kite in your non-dominant hand and the spool in the other.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2022
• Into each stocking goes a piece of cardboard cut in the shape of a spool.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
• To test this, simply hold the reel and turn the spool with your hand until the drag kicks in.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
• With a baitcaster, ease the tension on your thumb so the spool can feed line.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 13 Dec. 2023
• Grill them about the perils of overfilling the spool.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
• To delete them, open /var/spool/cups in Finder and delete any items in that folder.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 31 Oct. 2022
• Go long To stretch things out a bit, the researchers then turned to a long spool of cable.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2020
• Abe Troyer went home that night carrying three heavy spools of wire.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
• The ribbon spool cup is meant to look like ribbons are wrapped around the holiday cup.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• Measure about an arm’s length of ribbon and center on top of gift—but don’t cut if off the spool yet!
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 8 Dec. 2022
• Finally, thread your line through the bead and cover the spool with the elastic.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 10 Aug. 2020
• Because of a few spools of thread and a dozen needles, people were condemned to death.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• Wind both ends neatly in the direction shown on the spool, keeping the wraps tight and even.
  — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
• But it was found next to part of the main fuselage, with what appeared to be all the cable rolled up on a spool.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2021
• Measure about an arm’s length of ribbon and center it on top of the gift—but don’t cut it off the spool yet!
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 8 Dec. 2022
• There are no spools of barbed wire atop its fences or looming guard towers to announce its purpose.
  — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
• The tree recalls a spool of cashmere thread and is topped with Solomeo’s heraldic emblem.
  — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
• Baitcast reels sit on top of the rod and release the line directly off of the spool and through the guides.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• Some spool designs also fit better than others.
  — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026

spool

2 of 2 verb

• But that series took a little while to spool up through word of mouth.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• His days and nights spool out this way, one bleeding into the next.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• The reasons for this are slowly spooled out over the course of the book.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026
• Its impact spools out in their lives, and through them in the lives of many others.
  — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• After a few casts, Rubye’s rod bent, and the reel whined as line spooled out.
  — John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
• The back end of the line is tied to the backing (strong, thin string) spooled onto your reel.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2023
• The cold wind was blowing hard off the lake; the waves were spooling backward and bursting white.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• All rods and reels were 5-weight models, and all were spooled with the same weight-forward floating line.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 23 Mar. 2020
• Welky spools this story out with remarkable detail, yet the book never lags.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2018
• Line spools up in numerical order from right to left, with the taller spool in the middle or on the left.
  — Janna Oberdorf, Parents, 15 Dec. 2025
• This system brake-holds the output shaft of the 8-speed transmission while engine rpm spools up.
  — WSJ, 20 July 2017
• Light spooled across the water from Canada and turned the underside of the clouds yellow and pink.
  — Porter Fox, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• To minimize frustration, teach a novice how to spool a reel properly.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
• When the crew noticed the decaying speed and shoved the levers forward, the engines needed seconds to spool.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
• The free-spooling reel allowed the bait – a pink bead and spawn sac – to be carried with the current in a natural manner.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2018
• Town after town spooled by, tire shop after U-Haul dealer after cheap motel.
  — Andrew Moore, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The turbo spools up quickly through short final-drive gearing to provide terrific thrust.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• Later on, the book spools out toward these other characters, like Noah and Daw.
  — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
• The rope was spooled inside a wooden box anchored to the ground that Garcia would crank to increase or decrease the slack.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 1 May 2018
• But her sentence keeps spooling outward; following the rules has not brought her any closer to being released.
  — Book Marks august 7, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
• To increase throttle response, the electric blower generates boost while the turbos spool up to speed.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2020
• There's a massive surge of torque when the turbo spools, so much so that the rear tires barely maintain composure during a one-three upshift.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 21 June 2023
• But, as the tale spools out, the effect is a vivid and awful dramatisation of the narcissism of obsessive love.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Marvel As with many comic book superheroes, Storm’s origin story spooled out over the years.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• No waiting for turbos to spool, no artificial torque curves; nothing but straightforward grunt.
  — New Atlas, 3 May 2026
• One solution has been fiber-optic drones, which connect to their operators through long cables spooling out of their tails.
  — Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
• The fly reel is spooled with a weight-forward floating line, 20-pound backing and a 4X tapered leader.
  — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
• The opposite is true for Audi, which has been suffering poor starts as its larger turbo takes longer to spool up than the rest of the grid.
  — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 14 May 2026
• Match your stick with a quality reel that has plenty of line capacity and spool it 50- or 65-pound braid.
  — Steve Price, Field & Stream, 7 June 2023
• Coming up with replacement parts required a whole team of enthusiasts to make and spool the appropriate wire from scratch.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2016