- present participle of coil.
coiling
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The 2011 “Snake” dress, an oily, coiling swarm made of black polyvinyl, cotton and tulle, is a Hieronymus Bosch horror, everyone’s nightmare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
This coiling behavior appears to help snakes accommodate the exceptionally long bodies that distinguish them from every other vertebrate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
All day, the whole ride here, Peter had sensed it coiling.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
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
And then one could write by its coilings prehensile.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Dark huddled coilings from the obscene depths, Black, formless shadow, Shadow.
From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét
Limbs aching, he moved forward, with slow twists 59 and coilings of the body.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
