cat's cradle

Example Sentences

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There are frequent power cuts, as witnessed by the sagging cat's-cradle of wires overhead.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2016

Sometimes, too, she binds the sides of the hollow with a cat's-cradle of string in order to ensnare the eye and lead it deeper into the interior.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Aunt Angela, in her flurry, had only succeeded in making the candlesticks a hopeless cat's-cradle of wool before Evie's voice of vivacious welcome was heard, and Pepper himself entered.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

"Let me show you how to make a cat's-cradle, kid," she said, tucking her green silk skirt under her rusty shoes.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.

But you can play draughts or cat's-cradle with him, or read, or play the piano.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles