Sentence examples for being coiled from inspiring English sources

To our astonishment instead of being coiled in the flag he was wearing a somewhat commonplace spring overcoat.

In the preliminary stages of manufacture, the copper castings are rolled hot, but in the later stages all the rolling is carried out cold, the material being coiled on drums on each side of the rolling mills.

With this arrangement, the mainspring was made to rotate a barrel in which it was housed; a length of catgut, later replaced by a chain, was wound on it, the other end being coiled around the fusee.

It is short in predacious forms, sometimes no longer than the body cavity, but long in herbivorous forms, being coiled and several times longer than the entire length of the fish in some species of South American catfishes.

With high-speed computer control, it is common for several stands of rolls to be combined in series, with thick sheet entering the first stand and thin sheet being coiled from the last stand at linear speeds of more than 100 kilometres (60 miles) per hour.

Confirm that the coil of line is being coiled onto the reel in the same way.

The Coast Salish specialty was coiled baskets.

There were coiled strongholds of bramble.

Some are coiled six times, some eight.

A mattress is coiled whimsically like a carpet.

"Like a snake that's coiled up behind him".