cat's cradle

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Selena pulled off her candy necklace and began playing with it, twisting it into a cat’s cradle.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez