coiling

The decorated vessels were constructed using the Mississippian technique of coiling clay and followed more consistent clay recipes, suggesting a higher degree of specialized knowledge.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

The 2011 “Snake” dress, an oily, coiling swarm made of black polyvinyl, cotton and tulle, is a Hieronymus Bosch horror, everyone’s nightmare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Such coiling action often resolves in an explosive move.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

During danger she fanned out her dragon claws and riffled her red sequin scales and unfolded her coiling green stripes.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

And then one could write by its coilings prehensile.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

Here, accordingly, the coilings of the wandering forms began to slide into strait layers, and soft settlement of vapor.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

It flowed beautifully over her pretty small ears, and she would tie its fair coilings with fillets of black or blue velvet that carried pretty buckles of silver and paste.

From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Limbs aching, he moved forward, with slow twists 59 and coilings of the body.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon

Could it be that the impulses released by the Keeper's coilings passed through the Metal People of the pave on the upthrust Metal People of the crater rim who held the shields?

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt