- present participle of coil.
coiling
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Such coiling action often resolves in an explosive move.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 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
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
Liquid inks are bound by the rules of fluid dynamics, which means when they fall from a height, they become unstable, folding and coiling in on themselves.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023
Behind his head, still swirling and coiling, the great snake Nagini floated in her glittering, charmed cage, like a monstrous halo.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
They were become gliding lengths of muscle as swift, as loathsome in their supple dartings and coilings as any snake lashing across the expanses of primeval jungle.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
It flowed beautifully over her pretty small ears, and she would tie its fair coilings with fillets of black or blue velvet that carried pretty buckles of silver and paste.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
Dark huddled coilings from the obscene depths, Black, formless shadow, Shadow.
From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét
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
