coiling

Example Sentences

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All of it is held together via a coiling design that feels full of movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 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

Liquid inks are bound by the rules of fluid dynamics, which means when they fall from a height, they become unstable, folding and coiling in on themselves.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023

To thread coiling purple earthworms onto hooks on the fishing rods that Velutha made from slender culms of yellow bamboo.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy