cat's cradle
Example Sentences
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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 arrived in Washington in a five-team trade that required more maneuvers than a game of cat’s cradle but landed with a three-year, $62 million contract.
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2021
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
She rarely spoke, and played cat’s cradle with Plato during the service.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
