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

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

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

In an affidavit, Halim said a man named “Wilbur” or “Kinly” had created a diversion at the back of the ballroom before the shooting, igniting a furled sock as a makeshift smoke bomb.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2021

Ray Anderson and Brian Witzke spend their working lives up here amid disordered heaps of papers, journals, furled charts, and hefty specimen stones.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson