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

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

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

He passed Ole Jurgensen’s house, where white wood smoke furled from the chimney and disappeared on the wind—Ole, apparently, was keeping warm.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson