cat's cradle

Example Sentences

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There are frequent power cuts, as witnessed by the sagging cat's-cradle of wires overhead.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2016

Sometimes, too, she binds the sides of the hollow with a cat's-cradle of string in order to ensnare the eye and lead it deeper into the interior.

From Time Magazine Archive

As though reading my doubts, an officer beckoned, and we stepped outside the breastworks and into an intricate cat’s-cradle of barbed-wire.

From With the French in France and Salonika by Davis, Richard Harding

"I shall not think you one bit less manly, because I see you playing at cat's-cradle with a child six years old."

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

It was set upon stout, unpainted running-gear, guiltless of springs, in cat's-cradle fashion.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence