Sentence examples for coil up from inspiring English sources

"coil up" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of winding a long, flexible material (such as rope, wire, or yarn) into a spiral. For example, you could say, "She coiled up the rope quickly and easily."

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coil up

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To make, or become, coiled

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Both men and women would coil up their hair and many hair-coiling styles were developed.

Watch a strip of plastic laminated with heart-muscle tissue coil up as the tissue contracts.

It would be nice if they could coil up in the speaker to maintain their sleek look.

They really cut down on the tangles, but make it harder to conveniently coil up excess wire for tidy types.

In the winter, they can coil up in a riverbank or a hollow tree and brumate — the reptilian version of hibernating.

Their tails coil up, and each wears a turban, a little jacket, and a benign sad-eyed monkey smile that is almost sinister.

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

Inside, coiled up, is a 6ft rock python.

We know how to sleep coiled up on a typewriter.

Frustration, Varoufakis suggests, is coiled up across Europe today.

Liang, Z. & Li, J. Extreme acoustic metamaterial by coiling up space.

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