coiled

How To Use coiled In A Sentence

• Some time in the fifteenth century, clockmakers started to use tightly coiled blades of metal - springs - to power their timepieces, instead of gravity.
• Chromosomes are visible only during cell division, when the DNA is supercoiled and condensed to facilitate distribution into daughter cells.
• There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
• I'd anticipated him working inside a Back-To-The-Future kind of laboratory with bubbling beakers, coiled yellow electrical wire, and a suffocating sense of disarray.
• In mammals, the lagena is coiled and is referred to as the cochlea.
• But the Republican governors recoiled from the prospect of reopening the welfare bill for anything.
• Now, in this land the path of the transgressor is strewn with barbed wire, and so my mistress got entangled in some loose strands that had uncoiled from the fence. Janey Canuck in the West
• Our creative sector is like a coiled spring just waiting to be set free. Times, Sunday Times
• The snake coiled round the tree.
• The male reproductive system contains four pairs of accessory glands, the most prominent of which are the tightly coiled spiral accessory glands.