coiling

Halfway through, he ran to the piano and tapped out a “somber and slow” waltz idea, and on top of it a dark, coiling melody — with “something off but also maybe something romantic in it.”

She looked down and saw a large snake coiling around her left leg.

Then above me a dark shadow loomed over the coiling rope, against the starry sky.

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.

The girls leaned in close to watch the blue flower stretch itself upright, stem coiling around Ella's fingers.