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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

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 Charles Rogers

But swift as sailor, by his trembling mast Warned of Circeian tempest, furls his sails, So swift Torquatus saw, and prompt to wage The war more closely, he withdrew his men Within a narrower wall.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

From the fact that it furls its petals upon cloudy days, or at the approach of rain, it is called in England "poor-man's weather-glass."

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

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

The statue depicted a young boy, his chin up and hat tipped back, holding a furled Confederate flag to his side.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2022

There’s something called a buzz bud, a little furled blossom, on top.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

The Selaesori Qhoran had furled her big striped sail for the night, and her decks were all but deserted.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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