furled
Example Sentences
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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
I squint at the ships anchored in the harbor, their flags furled, their hulls bobbing in the sea’s waves.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
