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.
Viro heard a slither, and a hiss, and looked above; from the rafters, a furred snake hung, its tail coiled upon a rotten wooded sign, the whitish paint flecked and gone.
A hanger and clothespin don't just come in handy for doing laundry, they can also be used to straighten out coiled cords, even ones that may appear permanently kinked.
In general order of accuracy, these methods include a piezoelectric accelerometer, a coiled spring mechanism, and a hairspring mechanism. The Small Change Diet
I could smell the liquor on his breath, and I recoiled, disgusted.
This binding affinity to supercoiled DNA is approximately two orders-of-magnitude larger than on relaxed DNA.
It was the more provoking, as Bunce himself could write his name legibly, and one of those three doubting souls had for years boasted of like power, and possessed, indeed, a Bible, in which he was proud to show his name written by himself some thirty years ago -- "Job Skulpit;" but it was thought that Job Skulpit, having forgotten his scholarship, on that account recoiled from the petition, and that the other doubters would follow as he led them. The Warden
Topoisomerase III is a type I topoisomerase, acting on DNA that is negatively supercoiled and/or contains single-strand regions.
Revulsion at the thought, fear of the act; his mind recoiled from it, seeking sanctuary, finding it at once. LOHENGRIN
He recoiled in horror at the sight of the corpse.
Two grand staircases frame the 50m long ramp, sumptuously sculpted with coiled dragons, marking the imperial emblem.
A snake coiled itself around the branch.
When it is uncoiled, the rope takes on its ‘true’ or active shape.
For their technical challenge, they have to make a dacquoise with three layers of fragile coiled meringue. Times, Sunday Times
On an automated conveyor, a roll unwound, with the continuous sheet sent into a machine that coiled it helically and then welded it automatically with a high-frequency pulse of energy.
I recoiled, eyes wide open and flattened myself to the bed.
We keep them like coiled springs and only let them loose at the races. The Sun
I recoiled in horror from the snake.
The faecal casts retained their original coiled form on the sediment surface for several days but then gradually collapsed into a featureless mound on the sediment surface.
She recoiled from the brutality, and her lips tightened. THE END OF THE STORY
According to Van Damme, the dog represents the uncircumcised boy, the feline is the circumcised individual, and the coiled snake is the male organ.
They were linked by a great length of rope modestly coiled at both ends of the row.
We uncoiled our second rope, a hundred-foot hunk of 11 mm static that John sometimes used to tow his pickup.
Inevitability per se seems coiled upon itself in this alphabetic reknotting of Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Her mind recoiled from the images which bounded across it, images of Bettina in Johannes's arms, of lips not hers. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
He'd dreamt that night of Davey stealing into the cave and squatting beside him, watching him the way that he had before, and of Alan knowing, * knowing* that Davey was there, ready to rend and tear, knowing that his knife with its coiled handle was just under his pillow, but not being able to move his arms or legs. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
The snake slowly uncoiled.
Mist coiled around the tops of the hills.
Software makers, however, have recoiled at such an idea, knowing that customers will receive tremendous horsepower and need fewer processors.
The writer has a cherry-stone in which is coiled up an insect, best known as the sowbug. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
The more important buildings are protected by concrete blast barriers and coiled razor wire. Times, Sunday Times
He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing.
I also admired the way he could peel an apple with the skin in one piece, coiled like a spring.
Closed circular DNA usually exists in a supercoiled, plectonemic configuration, in which the DNA duplex is wound around another part of the same molecule to form a higher order helix.
There are following ways for modification of the EM character : structural arrangement , noncircular section, surface adulteration , micro - coiled stucture.
Taxa within the group are variously unilocular or multilocular, spherical, tubular or uniserial, and coiled or uncoiled.
The gun recoiled, and I saw my shot fly forward and hit him in the chest.
She recoiled in horror at the sight of an enormous spider.
Coiled in on herself, Chesarynth reeled dizzy across her endless night.
With each passing second his insides twisted and coiled like a snake.
The large coiled-straw hat forms a spiral pattern above the sharecropper's graying head, a halo earned, but perhaps too little too late.
The squat 1930s building is almost entirely obscured by huge blast walls and coiled razor wire. Times, Sunday Times
She recoiled from the gunman in terror.
Then into the hollow goes the whalebone, so, tightly coiled, and another piece of blubber is fitted over the whale-bone. The Story of Keesh
All bepatched and coiled asleep in his lonely lava den among the mountains, he looked, they say, as a heaped drift of withered leaves, torn from autumn trees, and so left in some hidden nook by the whirling halt for an instant of a fierce night-wind, which then ruthlessly sweeps on, somewhere else to repeat the capricious act. The Piazza Tales
Body of a sudoriferous-gland cut in various deirections.a. Longitudinal section of the proximal part of the coiled tube. b. Illustrations. Fig. 946
The fur was very soft and warm and the rabbit trembled slightly as I probed its smashed up hind legs with the tips of my fingers, then suddenly recoiled as they sunk into wet, ripped flesh.
Because there, on the floor, like a coiled serpent, lies the cause of the problem.
‘Revenge and death,’ he muttered, trying to rouse anger to replace the sudden fear that coiled in his belly.
Many of the taxa that apparently diverged in the Paleozoic now are limpets and retain little information about the morphologies of their coiled ancestors.
One shot bellowed out, and his gun recoiled, jumping backwards from the force of the bullet ripping from its nozzle.
But she recoiled in horror when the poisonous Chilean rose spider wriggled into life. The Sun
Her hair was coiled without conviction in the nape of her neck.
The theory is that Fraser recoiled from the idea of blaming a widely revered figure, and fellow Westminster alumni, especially one who cannot now defend himself.
The West recoiled with horror. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Within the septate group there are uniserial and coiled forms.
Each girl holds a little handbag mirror in the palm of one hand, and a coiled cylinder of paper in the other.
These very long, spiraled nascent bdellovibrio were proposed earlier from electron microscope images to be common in spirilla, which are long and coiled themselves.
The snake coiled, ready to strike.
Amniotic bands that connected a hypocoiled cord to the fetal neck and strangulated the neck were seen in one case.
She recoiled in horror when the noble young assistant offered his chaste embrace. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
The First offered his hand to Skellum, and the dementist recoiled. Chainer's Torment
Both men are in complete armor; the duke's helmet and gauntlets lie at his sides, while Saint George, a dragon coiled around his legs, removes his helmet with his right hand.
They evolved in the Devonian, comprising evolute to involute planispirally coiled conchs quite similar to that of the contemporaneous nautiloids.
A few minutes later, Sandro came scurrying from the alley, and placed his blood soaked muzzle in Bodhan’s lap, his bright phosphorescent eyes projecting sheer joy as his striped prehensile tail coiled and uncoiled rapidly. 365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The snake coiled round the branch.
When he suggested dinner, she recoiled in horror. Times, Sunday Times
The snake coiled up, ready to strike.
An accretional growth system that builds the special logarithmic curve of the coiled conch requires a suite of parameters, which are maintained in a very narrow zone of tolerance.
A snake coiled itself around the branch.
Adams recoiled from the “oily, sickish, slightly fetid odor” he smelled everywhere, and throughout his trip would complain that Japanese women were like cheap dolls—wooden, jerky, mechanical. The Five of Hearts
As far as the eye could range forward were columns of steam in the air, misshapen lumps of lime, mist-like preadamite monsters, still pools of turquoise-blue stretches of blue corn-flowers, a river that coiled on itself twenty times, pointed bowlders of strange colors, and ridges of glaring, staring white. American Notes
I mentioned to a friend who is a literature student and was unfamiliar with Bowen that she was strong on interpersonal subtleties and he recoiled from the book. To the North, by Elizabeth Bowen « Unknowing
The creeping mist coiled its tendrils round the spiky barbs like grasping fingers.
In an incandescent bulb, the filament is made of a thin piece of tungsten metal, coiled to fit inside the bulb; if it were stretched out, it would measure about 6 feet long!
For example, tropomyosin, a coiled-coil protein that binds along the sides of actin filaments, inhibits the rate of depolymerization from the pointed end, without affecting elongation.
Instead I recoiled in horror, letting out a loud, involuntary gasp of disgust, and dropped them back where I'd found them.
Coiled coils commonly contain a heptad of residues labeled A-G, repeated at least three or four times.
Another biserial morphotype with a coiled pattern is produced by relatively narrow ranges of all parameters and resembles simple spiral morphotypes with two series of chambers.
Married women wear coarse chemises and aprons of homespun linen; and their braided hair coiled on top of the head imparts a coronet shape to the gay cotton kerchief which is folded across the brow and knotted at the nape of the neck. Russian Rambles
At times it feels as though she is tripping over herself to release all the pacy phrases coiled in her mind. Times, Sunday Times
The evolutionary result of this is that sinistral species or closely related species with oppositely coiled shells are more common among tall-shelled lineages than among wide-shelled ones. How snails mate: Oxyloma retusa
The fangs of one clashed with his, cutting the lips of both of them, and the lighter dog recoiled from the impact. CHAPTER VI
Yet despite his claim that man ranks beneath the beasts, the artist may have recoiled from depicting a creature whose lower half is human but whose upper half is animal.
The project for auto sheets would provide for 1.21 million short tons of cold-rolled coiled sheets as well as 500,000 tons of zinc-plated hot-rolled coils annually, the Hunan provincial government said on its website this weekend, citing data provided by Hunan Valin's corporate affairs department. Arcelor's
A snake coiled itself around the branch.
Then there's the painting of the great fat snake coiled in a tree. Globe and Mail
A Burmese python is coiled around the arm of hunter Michael Cole during a news conference Monday, Feb. 22. Plan to block giant snakes in Florida may hurt businesses
He or she is coiled up, at head-height, and even when our guide pulls the branches in which the snake is nestling down a little to give us better view, the boa remains in steadfast slumber.
I remembered picking up a rubber johnny (presumably used) as it drifted past me and holding it up to the other volunteers, who all recoiled in horror.
The amino acids in the heptad repeats that constitute the predicted coiled-coil regions are underlined.
The large coiled springs and unfamiliar machinery tempt one to try to commandeer the thing and ride it into another era.
Under her skilled hands a snake of clay was being coiled into the shape of a large globular jar.
He was tense and coiled, and if looks could kill, she would already have been a pile of ash and dust.
She recoiled at the sight of the snake.
The boy coiled the rope down on the upper deck.
Murder! "was the word panted out by more than one harsh voice; and in another instant a dozen men and boys came rushing into sight in a state of such excitement that the five musicians recoiled from the gate, and one of them went so far as to start back toward the house. Agatha Webb
As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled.
He coiled the rope up tightly and put it away.
Perceiving that I had no intention of giving him fair play by coming within his reach, he suddenly uncoiled and glid across a log, thinking to make good his retreat; but being determined on having -- not his scalp, for the head of a rattle-snake is rather a dangerous toy -- but his rattle, I pursued him across the log. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
No more though, they began to cry for mercy as the school collectively recoiled from the piercing sound that had broken the silence.
On Christopher Oram's darkly minimal set, Russell Beale's thane is similarly subtle - not the world's most obvious warrior, certainly, but one who has a quiet, coiled energy.
As a teenage boy recoiled from the sudden impact and dropped to the ground a horde of uniformed figures weaved through the crowd and wrestled Simmons to the ground. FREE EXCERPT: Hater by David Moody (Chapter 1)
Earlier this week we admired and coiled in repulsion away from the amazing R.O.U.S. lookalike, the almiqui. Archive 2006-07-01
The more important buildings are protected by concrete blast barriers and coiled razor wire. Times, Sunday Times
The snake coiled round the branch.
Tea Party activists view the flag as a historic symbol of American defiance, but critics say the familiar flag with the image of a coiled rattlesnake is now associated with the controversial political movement. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 9, 2010
The West recoiled with horror. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
They met the same tempest of shell, grape, canister, and musketry, and recoiled.
the rope lay coiled on the deck
In most of these proteins, the coiled-coil domains are flanked by protein domains that control the protein's distribution or specific function.
The dog uncoiled to its full length.
If available, the dimension of the adult conch, the ornamentation of shell, and the position of the siphuncle of coiled nautiloids were compiled from the literature.
I know that part of him would have recoiled from the hurt that some of these things would cause me – what father wants his daughter to know how often he contemplated suicide? The Unbearable Lightness Of Letters | Her Bad Mother
The ecological role and niche of coiled cephalopods can be studied by considering the common morphological characters of these fossils.
Three of the left-handed coiled collagen molecules form a right-handed coiled triple helix called tropocollagen.
But Ransome was my man - his boy sailors steered their boats as close to the banks as possible and coiled ropes as neatly as interior decorators.
In fact, he recoiled in disgust, his contempt clearly showing on his face.
The epididymis is a very tiny, tightly coiled tubule, which runs along the back of the testicle from top to bottom. ON THE BUBBLE WITH LAURA LIPPMAN
Only a few moments passed before the unicorn whinnied, and suddenly recoiled, as if jarred by an electric shock.
The next morning, I reached down to stroke my sleek calves and recoiled in horror when my fingers encountered a disgusting prickliness.
The serpent coiled, tensing to spring forth once more.
Taxa within the group are variously unilocular or multilocular, spherical, tubular or uniserial, and coiled or uncoiled.
People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled, weather-revealed shells.
Since the filament is coiled, the increase of the filament current will consequently induces a larger electromagnetic force between the coils. We calculate the electromagnetic force of in...
Some editors have recoiled from the idea, finding it a bit unseemly.
An Internal Bottom Hole Assembly for a Coiled Tubing enables the CT to be used with other devices downhole.
A highly irritated western coachwhip snake was coiled in the grass.
She knew the huge, twenty-foot, spring snake coiled inside the camera and ready to leap out like a jack-in-the-box when Dick squeezed the bulb. CHAPTER XXIX
I looked up as he came closer, but Andreus coiled up the lash into a plaited leather loop and hit me across the back of the neck with it, forcing my eyes back down.
One small detail would be that Sean Penn's character is made up to look a bit TOO sadistic, with his bouffant hair style and coiled facial hair coming off as a bit too mean.
David was amused to find he'd coiled his stethoscope inside his jacket pocket from force of habit. DO NO HARM
The development of a coiled conch by only stochastic variation, or as a result of structural constraints alone, is considered highly improbable.
a coiled snake ready to strike
Our creative sector is like a coiled spring just waiting to be set free. Times, Sunday Times
He coiled the rope on the deck.
Obed, smoking his pipe, deliberately uncoiled himself -- I thou as he rose, there was to be no end of him -- and stood upright in the boat, like an ill -- rigged jurymast. Tom Cringle's Log
Flowers – light blue, small, on a one-sided raceme, coiled up at the tip and unfolding as the flowers open – calyx five-lobed – corolla is round and flat, or salver shaped – stamens five – there is a white species of the flower. Flower Stories
But she was never to wear the Asase Ya costume, with its brilliantly patterned dashiki and the tall, coiled wig of black yarn.
The second is a flowing, serpentine face coiled around the unutterable disgrace of national decomposition and dissolution.
He leant forward to kiss her and she recoiled in horror.
He reached out as if meaning to grasp my hand but recoiled suddenly.
Coiled-coil containing protein TSGA14 (Cep41) was recently described as a centrosomal component PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Ah, Miss Rondel had spied him and not recoiled in revulsion. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
The forest had given up the struggle, and the dizzying heat recoiled from the unclothed rock. CHAPTER 3
Smoke like incense coiled from the corner of the room from the dried bunches of herbs he had found in Mary's cold store.
Watson and Crick found that certain evidence ex cluded the possibility that the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule are paranemically coiled, that is, are so coiled that they can simply slip into and out of each other. GENETIC CONTINUITY
I recoiled from the sight and smell, almost slipping on a paintbrush as I stepped back. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
The joints had to be as strong and flexible as the pipes themselves, and able to stand the stress of being coiled with the pipes onto large drums.
And widowhood is formally bestowed upon her as a clutch of women uncoil her neatly-coiled hair, remove her mangalsutra, break her bangles and wipe of her bindi.
I recoiled from the sight and smell, almost slipping on a paintbrush as I stepped back. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
He dropped it suddenly and recoiled with disgust.
When she had finished, Arien gently took the limp serpent and coiled it in the water, which just covered it. The Night Of the Solstice
OGXers had a front-row seat for a Reagan Revolution, during that they saw "liberal" turn a irreverent term, as most Americans recoiled from a assorted ransom movements (sexual, feminist, gay, ethnic) of a Sixties as well as Seventies. The Original Generation X, 1954-63 by Joshua Glenn
There are also stinging cells with coiled threads inside them, the unique possessions of the jellyfish tribe.
When he suggested dinner, she recoiled in horror. Times, Sunday Times
The snake coiled up, ready to strike.
It can be used for a variety of applications, such as flow lines, coiled tubing, service intervention lines and deepsea risers.
For many years, the method of choice for supercoiled plasmid and virus DNA purification was cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation in the presence of an intercalation agent (such as ethidium bromide or propidium iodide). Archive 2005-10-01
Each tentacle has a globular tip filled with a multitude of cells, the so-called lasso-cells, each one of which conceals a coiled-up thread. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
Coiled shells, commonly of ammonoid cephalopods, nautiloids, or gastropods, have been given colloquial names such as rams' horns, snakestones, serpentstones, and conger eels.
The snake coiled itself around a branch.
She coiled her hair into a neat bun on top of her head.
All but the moonworts and grape ferns have fronds that, in the bud stage, are tightly coiled into the familiar fern crozier that is usually protected by a covering of scales or hairs.
The daughter isotope, rutherfordium - 259 (an isotope of element 104), recoiled into an opposing detector.
A snake coiled itself around the branch.
Sighing she recoiled her rope and remounted Diego and slowly rode off.
‘It sure hurts the shoulder,’ Shelley said, rubbing where the gun's stock recoiled into her bones.
When forced to sit still he was like a coiled spring. The Times Literary Supplement
After the siren sounds, a crew has five minutes to get food for a day and pick up an initial attack kit holding the essentials to fight a forest fire: a pump, coiled hose, shovels, pulaski, chainsaw and toolkit. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
But she recoiled in horror when the poisonous Chilean rose spider wriggled into life. The Sun
Her well-remembered cable of dark-brown hair was partially coiled up in a mass at the back of her head, and partly hanging on her shoulder, the evident result of haste.
She recoiled hastily at seeing a snake in the path.
He coiled the rope on the deck.
She dreamed of electronic books and showers of golden coins pattering gently over the two of them as they lay coiled in a passionate embrace. Cyberbooks
But the Republican governors recoiled from the prospect of reopening the welfare bill for anything.
She saw the names of prominent corporate donors mentioned liberally throughout the library and recoiled.
The docks were littered with greasy, untidily coiled hawsers, tools, cargo and refuse.
_Spirochaete_ (Ehrenb.), spirally coiled in numerous close turns, motile, but apparently owing to flexile movements, as no cilia are found. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Slowly, the snake uncoiled.
In the non-dividing phase of a eukaryotic cell's life cycle, known as interphase, the chromosomes are uncoiled.
My boys took one look at her and recoiled in horror.
The snake coiled up, ready to strike.
She wore most frequently, at this epoch, black velvet that suppled about her well-asserted contours; and the very trail of her skirt was unlike another woman's, for it coiled and bristled after her with a life and motion of its own, like a serpent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
Her hair was coiled on top of her head.
Howard recoiled a little at the sharpness in my voice.
Each nematocyst contains a coiled, hollow thread that can have barbs or spines and often contains poison. Undefined
The two cats were coiled together, yin and yang, in the old armchair that Edmund used to consider his own. SANDS OF TIME
The squat 1930s building is almost entirely obscured by huge blast walls and coiled razor wire. Times, Sunday Times
He recoiled at the thought of allowing his steady girlfriend, Ms Boyle, from taking up more permanent residence in his home, and they went separate ways earlier this year.
I took the last Baggie from the box and sprinkled comfrey and patchouli on the black dragon, following its coiled body with a trail of the herbs. Arcane Circle

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