furled

Example Sentences

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They packed up their chairs and furled banners, as the makeshift tent city slowly transformed back into a standard campus plaza.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

The baby’s tail or “fluke,” critical to swimming, was still furled from being compacted in utero.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

The statue depicted a young boy, his chin up and hat tipped back, holding a furled Confederate flag to his side.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2022

And it was before a short, ruffled cocktail frock appeared, with the frills at the back furled like rose petals and the front obscured by a refrigerator.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2021

And there, instead of the lovely bright creature I’d imagined, crouched an odd-looking thick-bodied butterfly with damp, tightly furled wings.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly