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
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
A chef will knead, twist and basically perform rope tricks with dough before stretching it into a cat’s cradle of bouncy strands.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2016
He was a stout boy with braces so heavily rubber-banded that his mouth looked like a cat’s cradle.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
