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

Up in the bucket of the scissor lift, she maneuvered through her huge cat’s cradle, cinching lines and crocheting them with larger stitched panels to create dense splashes of color among the trees.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

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

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