cat's cradle
Example Sentences
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By the 1880s, a cat’s cradle of submerged telegraph lines wound around the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The noodle master in the open kitchen stretches and twists the strings of dough as if mimicking a game of cat’s cradle.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022
He arrived in Washington in a five-team trade that required more maneuvers than a game of cat’s cradle but landed with a three-year, $62 million contract.
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2021
No other series has propelled such a massive yet impeccably individualized cast through such an impossibly intricate cat’s cradle of story lines that honestly should have collapsed long ago but didn’t.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2019
Usually, Meadowlark and I use our before-bed time to talk, brush our teeth together, or play cat’s cradle or card games she invents.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
