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Coiled in sentence

18 examples of Coiled in a sentence

It was as though those tightly coiled wires in my head had been disconnected, and I could think clearly.
In an egg fresh from the hen, these proteins look like coiled up balls of string.
And duck vaginas are shaped like a clockwise spiral so that when the male inflates his long, counterclockwise coiled penis into her, and she disapproves, all she needs to do is flex her vaginal muscles and the penis just flubs out.
This quark is supposedly made up of little coiled strings, and it's the vibrations of these strings that make everything what it is.
As the warrior slept, a snake coiled around his face.
It also has coiled electronics that WiTricity has put into the back of it.
I can definitively tell you that oatmeal, Jell-O, Cream of Wheat, Gak, pudding, clay, tapioca, Silly Putty and tomato paste do not slide through a tube that's coiled up under your costumes that's meant to come out an orifice in your chest and spray towards the audience.
Every cell in your body (except mature red blood cells) – there are about 50 trillion in an adult – contains copies of your DNA, which are coiled up tightly to form 46 separate bundles called chromosomes.
“The American economy is coiled like a spring and ready to go,” he chirped in 2003.
For an instant they maintained silence, coiled up like balls, cowering on their chairs.
Mr. Pickwick drew his coat closer about him, coiled himself more snugly up into the corner of the chaise, and fell into a sound sleep, from which he was only awakened by the stopping of the vehicle, the sound of the hostler's bell, and a loud cry of 'Horses on directly!'
s I saw when the rites were doneAnd the lamps were dead and the Gods aloneAnd the gray snake coiled on the altar stoneEre I fled from a Fear that I could not see,And the Gods of the East made mouths at me.
Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.
Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.
He paused within three steps of the corner in which the unfortunate Jew had now, as it were, coiled himself up into the smallest possible space, and made a sign for one of the slaves to approach.
His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon.
The young men hauled in their lines, coiled them up, cleaned the hooksand stuck them into corks, and sat waiting.
Nevertheless, the remarkably pointed and lofty roof of the modern palace, bristling with carved eaves, covered with sheets of lead, where coiled a thousand fantastic arabesques of sparkling incrustations of gilded bronze, that roof, so curiously damascened, darted upwards gracefully from the midst of the brown ruins of the ancient edifice; whose huge and ancient towers, rounded by age like casks, sinking together with old age, and rending themselves from top to bottom, resembled great bellies unbuttoned.