coiling
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This dynamic “implies a coiling that will eventually resolve in a sharp repricing,” wrote BMO Capital Markets’ head of U.S. rates strategy, Ian Lyngen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 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
She looked down and saw a large snake coiling around her left leg.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Suddenly, the form of the coiling serpent dangling from the tree by her head is seen to match the shape of her own spiraling hair, which is directly adjacent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
And so saying, she threw herself upon her knees before the new-comer, and clasped her arms around her with a rapidity and suppleness that almost resembled the coilings of a snake.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
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
Dark huddled coilings from the obscene depths, Black, formless shadow, Shadow.
From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét
