cat's cradle
Example Sentences
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By the 1880s, a cat’s cradle of submerged telegraph lines wound around the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
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
Usually, Meadowlark and I use our before-bed time to talk, brush our teeth together, or play cat’s cradle or card games she invents.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
