folding

How To Use folding In A Sentence

• He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
• She basically went all to pieces and I spent more than an hour angrily muttering and refolding every piece of linen in the closet so that when I was finished, it looked like this.
• As time went on, these cartoons got even worse and eventually collapsed with the folding of the company.
• I kept folding up the wads of twenties and stuffing them in the pocket of my shorts.
• The conceptus, like the infant, the child, and the adolescent, is a being who is in the process of unfolding its potential; that is, the potential to grow and develop itself but not to change what it is.
• Previous workers have attributed these differences to changes in rheology, i.e. brittle faulting in sandstones v. more ductile folding and faulting in dolostones.
• Nothing kills the festive spirit as much as someone whisking under your feet with a dustpan and brush, folding up wrapping paper and tutting about all the pine needles.
• Educators have also applied paper folding to such diverse mathematical objects as logical structures, axiomatic systems, and tessellations with geometrical figures.
• Scaffolding has been erected around the tower and repair work will start next week.
• First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)