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 he commanded that his banner should be furled; and he did off the Star of the North Kingdom and gave it to the keeping of the sons of Elrond.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
