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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

It's a lightbox in which a furl of lurid pink seems to unroll from the mouth of a black-and-white MRI scanner.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2011

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

From Time ● Jul. 29, 2011

During my road trip that doesn't matter, because I have to furl it every day anyway.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

Every life has been a battle     That has won a noble guerdon— Every soul that furls its pinions In proud Fame's serene dominions,     Wearily has borne its burden.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The meadow lark on the fence post behind my house is unusually voluble this uncertain morning; maybe he is getting his day's singing off before the sun shall hide, discomfited, behind the unrolling cloud furls.

From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

Sings Thoreau:— “His steady sails he never furls     At any time o' year, And perching now on winter's curls,     He whistles in his ear.”

From Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs

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

But Waterston, 81, had still insisted on meeting in Central Park, armed against the wintry mix in a broad-brimmed hat, a leather jacket and an umbrella that he mostly left furled.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

But with a dirty hull, a furled black sail and tattooed men stowing gear on deck, it looked like a pirate ship returning from a raid.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018

And there, instead of the lovely bright creature I’d imagined, crouched an odd-looking thick-bodied butterfly with damp, tightly furled wings.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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