cat's cradle
Example Sentences
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Krasnostein skips from subject to subject and returns, with the fluidity of a string wound for a game of cat’s cradle — in and out and back where she started.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022
The noodle master in the open kitchen stretches and twists the strings of dough as if mimicking a game of cat’s cradle.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022
The book is constructed like a cat’s cradle, a chronological double helix.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2019
No other series has propelled such a massive yet impeccably individualized cast through such an impossibly intricate cat’s cradle of story lines that honestly should have collapsed long ago but didn’t.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2019
Did she mean that she went to their houses and played cat’s cradle, or went out for walks with them, or to secret parties at night?
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
