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Told in rhyming verse, Carroll’s trademark use of deep reds and blue give the proceedings an eerie whimsy, and her layouts — always brilliant — furl and explode across the page.

From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2018

Smith: I go out on the yard to furl the sail and all that stuff.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2017

Arthel Watson was born in 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina, a furl in the western region of the Blue Ridge mountains named by Daniel Boone.

From The Guardian ● May 30, 2012

Behind him, shaven-headed demonstrators furl the English flag, the Cross of St. George.

From Time ● Jul. 29, 2011

“They furl their sails at double-time, then off they go,” he said, “into the city like mice into grain.”

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

Her Bengali furls backward toward its village origins.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2016

As furls of smoke spread out on a screen above him, a voice intoned "This is the night of the demon" over thunderous bass.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2010

Each, air that faintly curls   About thy nest   Its daring pinion furls   Within thy breast.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

When blythe the blue e'ed dawnin' Steals saftly o'er the lawnin', And furls night's sable awnin', I love to think o' thee.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

The harbour lies below, and a fishing boat running in furls its large triangular sail and drops its anchor.

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.

They packed up their chairs and furled banners, as the makeshift tent city slowly transformed back into a standard campus plaza.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024

The baby’s tail or “fluke,” critical to swimming, was still furled from being compacted in utero.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023

And it was before a short, ruffled cocktail frock appeared, with the frills at the back furled like rose petals and the front obscured by a refrigerator.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2021

Behind them, high-stepping drummers beat on the undersides of Hechinger buckets with Hechinger paint stirrers while others provide accompaniment with the zzzzzip sound of their Hechinger tape measures being unfurled and furled.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2020

When they opened their mouths to neigh, Aru saw that their teeth were tightly furled white buds.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Near the bandstand, a group of people danced in a circle to Khmer music, dreamily furling their fingers and twisting their wrists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

Decades after the furling of Britain’s union flag, he waved his liberation credentials with such skill and frequency that he stood as an emblem, however flawed, of Africa’s yearning to be free of outside control.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017

Mostly, though, what’s satisfying about “Other Lives” is that there’s some actual meat on the bones of the story; it’s not just insinuation and cigarette smoke furling into a dark bar.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2015

A problem with the furling system on the main sail was the cause of Ainslie's problems, according to Branson.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2015

Some of the crew were on the yards, furling the sails; some of them, down below.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee