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
Although often compared to cat’s cradle, hei is more than a children’s game; it is a symbolic language.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022
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
He pulled it off his arm and into his hand, testing it, running it from hand to hand as if he was about to make a cat’s cradle.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
