as in winding
to follow a circular or spiral course
a vine coiling around a pillar
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Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coiling
Adjective
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Brecher's image captured spectacular detail in the sweeping spiral arms of the 260,000 light-year-wide galaxy gleaming with the intense light of star formation.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 Sep. 2025 -
Now streaming on Disney+ When Tulip votes for The Two Shellys’ idea for the Halloween party theme, Jade and Posey spiral over Tulip bonding with The Shellys.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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An official video, which has since been taken down, showed a vibrant spectacle of fireworks being unleashed from the top of a mountain, forming a winding line that Cai – the mastermind behind 2008 Beijing Olympic Games’ fireworks display – likened to a dragon.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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This knot is made by winding two strings around each other three and a half times and then gluing their opposing ends together.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Midway through the twenty-first century, a nuclear disaster sent tsunamis curling over the continents, sinking New York and Rotterdam and turning the United Kingdom into an archipelago.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The first-half move that led to Dilane Bakwa’s curling shot — pushed away by Dubravka — was delightful.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The eclipse maximum This magnificent view of the sun's disk was captured minutes after the local eclipse maximum, when 70% of the solar surface surface was hidden by the curving expanse of the moon in the skies above Dunedin in New Zealand.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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Now operated by the 3rd generation of the Scott family, who still cook burn-barrel style on big cinderblock pits under the curving metal roof of the pit house.—
Robert F. Moss,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Coiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coiling. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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