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

There’s something called a buzz bud, a little furled blossom, on top.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

Behind them, high-stepping drummers beat on the undersides of Hechinger buckets with Hechinger paint stirrers while others provide accompaniment with the zzzzzip sound of their Hechinger tape measures being unfurled and furled.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2020

Behind them came all the procession, opening out, all striding in step, all the capes furled, everybody with free arms swinging, and behind rode the picadors, their pics rising like lances.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway