How To Use Birling In A Sentence
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His mistake was to attempt a back-heel on the run which bounced off Cameron, setting his little legs birling.
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Yes, so see a bloke revolving a log in the water while he's standing on it, and you know it's birling.
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Certain kings and princes of the Turf would be birling in their graves at the thought of a syndicate winning the world's most famous Flat race - the Royal Ascot Club is the first to do so in 225 years of the race.
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In a week when Celtic start their Champions League campaign, their greatest manager might just be birling in his grave.
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This was event one: birling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Simon Vincent plays the Birlings' alcoholic dandy of a son and perfectly exposes the irony present when a parent accuses their child of being spoilt.
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Gone are the days when a wee dram and a tin of shortbread were enough to get the nation birling into a hangover worthy of a new year.
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Birlinger, A. "Die Nonnen von St. Katherinenthal bei Diessenhofen" (Leben alemannischer Frauen des Mittelalters 5), Alemannia 15 (1887): 150 – 84.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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We have managed to stagger to a situation where fans of some sports and participants in others are birling hither, while fans and would-be sporty types from different pursuits have been confined to barracks and Grandstand.
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After leaving the Old Vic, he played Eric Birling in J. B. Priestley's, An Inspector Calls at the New Theatre in October 1946.
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I had been dining, and it was Saturday night, and I had ill will to begin to it; however, they got me down to Clerihughs, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit henn under my belt, and then they persuaded me to draw the paper.
Chapter XXXIX
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It was blithe and heartsome to go birling to Skeighan in the train; it was grand to jouk round Barbie on the nichts at e'en!
The House with the Green Shutters
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Once there, he tried to cool the drink by birling his arms like windmill blades.
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While this was passing, the birling had drawn close to the boat; and Murray, shaking hands with his uncle and aunt, exclaimed to Wallace, "That urchin is such a monopolizer, I see you have not a greeting for anyone else.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Genoa's most famous son must be birling in his grave.
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Clerihugh's, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit hen
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02
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Past players will be welcomed to the ground on Saturday and future stars will cheer from the sidelines, but it is the current crop who hope to have Shankly birling.
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‘Actually,’ she continues before Burns starts birling in his grave, ‘I think he would have been too short for me.’
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Flower o’ Scotland was given the kind of revamp that must have had traditionalists birling, and it seemed to sum up everything that the national manager has been seeking from his players: all gusto and passion.
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One can almost imagine Dan Maskell birling in his grave at this heresy.
