- present participle of coil.
coiling
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This dynamic “implies a coiling that will eventually resolve in a sharp repricing,” wrote BMO Capital Markets’ head of U.S. rates strategy, Ian Lyngen.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Liquid inks are bound by the rules of fluid dynamics, which means when they fall from a height, they become unstable, folding and coiling in on themselves.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023
The 2.4-mile stretch of Mulholland Highway, named for its resemblance to the coiling reptiles, winds through the Santa Monica Mountains roughly between Kanan Road and Sierra Creek Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2023
Behind where they sat, I could see the 20-foot border wall with coiling razor wire on top.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
I sensed his hindquarters swaying in anticipation, his tail coiling like the rope.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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And so saying, she threw herself upon her knees before the new-comer, and clasped her arms around her with a rapidity and suppleness that almost resembled the coilings of a snake.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
They were become gliding lengths of muscle as swift, as loathsome in their supple dartings and coilings as any snake lashing across the expanses of primeval jungle.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
Could it be that the impulses released by the Keeper's coilings passed through the Metal People of the pave on the upthrust Metal People of the crater rim who held the shields?
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
Limbs aching, he moved forward, with slow twists 59 and coilings of the body.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
Dark huddled coilings from the obscene depths, Black, formless shadow, Shadow.
From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét