Vinh twisted, delivering a powerful, openhanded slap that sent them spinning apart.

The picket line of incandescent machines spun apart before her.

Mr. Clinton reviewed the tragic history of the former Yugoslavia after the country spun apart in 1991.

Each time I am there, people tell me the place is about to spin apart.

He played down speculation that Canada might spin apart in the years to come.

For a while, things held together under the benevolent care of Mirabel, but when she died, the family began spinning apart.

The two cars tangled, then went spinning apart.

The popularity of the former king now is partly the sense of a lost idyll, before Afghanistan spun apart.

He twisted hard at the vital instant and sent his enemies spinning apart.

When the sword sliced through them, they howled in agony and spun apart.