How To Use Furled In A Sentence
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She reached out and grasped the silk, gasping as it unfurled into a thin cloak, shimmering softly.
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He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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There are solar blankets kind of furled up in there.
CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007
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I mustered the entire caravan outside the tembe, our flags and streamers were unfurled, the men had their loads resting on the walls, there was considerable shouting, and laughing, and negroidal fanfaronnade.
How I Found Livingstone
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A Palestinian flag was unfurled at the site, and some of the demonstrators threw firecrackers at the building.
Egypt to withdraw ambassador to Israel over ambush
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It was not enough to fill the sail, and it was raised soon after it was unfurled, and the heaving on the oars continued.
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The sails had been furled in preparation for the storm.
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Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown.
Within a Budding Grove
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Aye, aye, sir," the boy answered readily, for he enjoyed being aloft, and he clambered up the shrouds to the fore-topgallant yard and furled the sail, taking a pride in having it lie smooth and round on the top of the yard.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
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Tom, if you have to ask why there is a roll of toilet paper unfurled on Washington Street, obviously you don't have a clue.
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The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Dusty flags are again unfurled.
Christianity Today
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Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled.
Chapter 9
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The bat furled his left wing around his body, and seemed to stretched upwards.
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Many of the traditions survive in the modern firm: liveried commissionaires still take visitors' soggy umbrellas and hand them back, dried and furled, when they leave.
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In this BBC news video, a reporter with all the necessary documentation tries to visit Tiananmen Square with a cameraperson, only to find himself surrounded by umbrella-wielding goons who use their unfurled bumbershoots to block every shot the camera-person tries to catch.
Boing Boing
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The midge is an ephemeral 2-3 mm insect whose larva induces a gall on young unfurled S. viminalis leaves.
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When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several.
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Circulation areas are used in a limited way for display, especially for a few large iconic objects, such as a 'couta boat complete with unfurled sail at the front of the building.
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During this brief exchange of words, Klauss had ventured over to the crumpled picture and unfurled it.
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I want you to step from the crosstrees onto that, but rest most of your weight against the yard - use the sail furled along the top to hang on to.
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Up in the stands a banner was unfurled with the same tribute.
Times, Sunday Times
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The captain gave his orders in a clear voice, and rope after rope was hauled taut, and the sails were furled, that is rolled up, except the fore-topsail, which was closely reefed.
Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading
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Yes, Will's prose is more orotund and the moral is more delicately unfurled.
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Farms unfurled to the Bays of Pollenca and Alcudia as one last surge of Sierra forked into capes Pinar and Formentor.
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Fearing they would be blown into the island cliffs, the crew furled the main sail, then to lower the ship's profile further, Alexander ordered the main spar lowered.
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The breeze that filled the sail died down; they furled the sail and lowered the mast; then, once again, they pulled at the oars.
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A flash-frozen flag of Iberico ham was allowed to thaw at the table and then unfurled and draped blanketlike over a teepee of roasted salsify and a puddle of hazelnut cream, the ham melting into the hot fluted bowl just slightly before the head waiter drizzled it with smoked paprika oil.
Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
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Yet each day thousands of Chinese wait for hours to watch the national flag being unfurled.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ordinary seamen, younkers, grummets, and ship-boys, did the work aloft, furled and loosed the sails, and did the ordinary, never-ceasing work of sailors.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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A night of calm, when sleep is well-nigh impossible in the sultry, muggy air, may be followed by a day of blazing sun and an oily swell from the south'ard, connoting great gales in that area of ocean we are sailing toward -- or all day long the Elsinore, under an overcast sky, royals and sky sails furled, may plunge and buck under wind-pressure into a short and choppy head-sea.
CHAPTER XXVII
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Up in the stands a banner was unfurled with the same tribute.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sail were loosed and reefed, furled and unfurled, braces manned, halyards tested.
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It began when a band struck up the opening hymn and a huge screen unfurled with a little bouncy ball popping across the words so everyone could sing along.
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Bridget made tea for them both and came and watched as the sweep turned and furled his brushes with a dexterous competence.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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She hides her face with a raised and unfurled fan.
Berthe Morisot
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One minute he's running up to the bow to check a sail is properly unfurled.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a start, the people queuing for kebabs after the march furled their banners.
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The warm lyricism of the music unfurled anew in waves of lush orchestral sound.
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He ordered more of his men aboard, and had all the canvas clewed up and furled snugly away.
The Lost Poacher
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One year ago we brought you the Wall House, an elegant small-scale home that challenges the concept of walls with its delaminated construction and a flexible shell that invokes a sky-blown kite or a pristinely unfurled sail.
WALL HOUSE: Build Your Own With Customizable Kit! | Inhabitat
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The ship had seven short masts, and though the sails were furled, the ship gave a sudden lurch as the lines were cast off, and began sliding away from the dock in such a way that it seemed the dock itself was receding from them.
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Leaves had unfurled , goldfinches had arrived at the feeder and daffodils were fighting their way heavenward.
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She hides her face with a raised and unfurled fan.
Berthe Morisot
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Up in the stands a banner was unfurled with the same tribute.
Times, Sunday Times
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Women, it is commonly believed, sewed the rebel flag that was unfurled on Bakery Hill as a symbol of united resistance.
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Hardly had his sails been furled and his mooring made fast than he was hustling his passengers ashore.
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Yet each day thousands of Chinese wait for hours to watch the national flag being unfurled.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dahabiyeh -- her very name, the _Loulia_, has a gentle, seductive, cooing sound -- drifts broadside to the current with furled sails, or glides smoothly on before an amiable north wind with sails unfurled.
The Spell of Egypt
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She knotted her jacket's sleeves around her waist and from a pocket she unfurled a roll of balloons.
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Once unfurled, the fronds produce a more bitter, unappetizing flavor.
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furled sails bound securely to the spar
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Southend today unfurled the flag of success as its beaches were named among the best in Europe.
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Fearing they would be blown into the island cliffs, the crew furled the main sail, then to lower the ship's profile further, Alexander ordered the main spar lowered.
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Allen furled the large handkerchief into a silken rope.
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At least we know the roller-furled jib works, though overall it isn't exactly a great advert for Sunfast (the makers of the yacht).
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With sails unfurled, Cosmos 1 will be bright enough to be easily visible to the naked eye.
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Covers were dragged across courts, umbrellas and hooded capes unfurled, and Britain reminded itself that there is remains one sport – uncomplaining stoicism – at which it is the undisputed world champion.
Wimbledon day one: champagne, umbrellas and British hopes dashed
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County flags are unfurled and plans are made for the journey to the ‘match’.
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‘And these were everywhere,’ he laments nostalgically, pointing to the Irish-looking coracle lashed under the furled rust sails.
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A team of hard-faced security guards with tightly furled umbrellas and sinister earpieces did not kneel and scan the jubilant crowd while he celebrated the shot.
'I'm Glad Tiger's Not Here'
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The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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The sails were all furled in tight bundles around the various booms, and a lantern gleamed with white light on the bowsprit.
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The golden, starry wonders of the dark universe unfurled before the brave interstellar vessel “Argus” like a black flag of victory with a whole bunch of holes in it as the mysterious mission buoyantly commenced that would one day resolve critical questions about space, time, and the appropriate ratio of nuts to chips in a perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Campbell and Strugeon Full Details
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The room was dark, but he was finally able to make out a heraldic device stamped on a small leather coffer — a lymphad with the sail furled and oars over the side, flying a death’s-head flag: the arms of House Skellhaven.
Conqueror's Moon
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He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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Ariza has gone from looking like the epitomal Rockets player to the kind of unfurled, witless entity that threatens the team's balance.
FanHouse Main
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About 20 h after egg hatch, when the larvae on the resistant genotypes were still alive and the leaves with larvae were still furled, one leaf with larvae was removed from each plant and tested for the presence of hydrogen peroxide.
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* Pyramid of World Building: OlafCedricMarcusDraglon sheathed his sword furled his duelling whip hung his war ax on his belt rolled up his steelslice.
Novel 2.0
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Given the "disruptiveness" element the court is focusing on, does that mean if the student unfurled a 14 foot banner with those mohammed cartoons and some nearby muslims start rioting that that sign would be verbotten?
"Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"...
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The ships' sails were furled and covered, their many masts looked like forlorn trees in a winter storm.
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As soon as the first breath of wind rippled the ocean about them, the sail was unfurled and everyone aboard had a purpose again.
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While the faithful filed into the church for Sunday Mass offered by their archbishop, Philippe Cardinal Barbarin, protestors representing Lesbian and Gay Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Forum, and AIDS Rhône unfurled a banner reading “The condom is life - The Church prohibits it” while chanting, “No to the callote (zucchetto), long live the capote (condom)”.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Columbus and his captains went ashore in an armed launch and unfurled the royal banner and two flags.
Christianity Today
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Aida remembered that Maria arose early in the morning, when the blooms were tightly furled.
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The scroll is unfurled from the coffin in a northeasterly direction, so that the priest may walk the soul along it in the proper direction.
Mystical Art From a 'Lost' World
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This attack unfurled upon future generations of the world without explanation, compensation, reclamation, or reparations
Breast Cancer Awareness Doesn’t End on November 1
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Perhaps the Sixers were inspired for a thrilling victory by the pregame festivities that included two banners for the Sixers championship teams unfurled from the rafters, along with one former public address announcer Dave Zinkoff.
USATODAY.com
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Telli furled the sail as they entered its mouth and they drifted up to a small jetty, timing it perfectly so they had no need to use the oars.
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A creak sounded, and a rope ladder unfurled from an unseen source.
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The crossjack, of course, had been furled some time, with the wind being plumb aft.
The Ghost Pirates
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A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
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As the sail unfurled and bellied out in the wind, it blocked the ferryman's view of the island.
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Thran's forehead furled as he turned to the desk, “Box on the—”
Masdy's Silver
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They spent their time in spelling out yarns about the boats plying the seas, and the men that furled the sails and manned the tillers.
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Unfurled in baleful grandeur, like some dark cloud of heaven, surcharged with thunder and the brewing tempest, it rides the air, and bedims the beams of day.
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The outermost one, called the flyaway, was being furled, though the sailor stretched out upon the stay beneath the bowsprit was drenched by each downward plunge of the schooner's bow.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes
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As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles.
Wildwood
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Most wind machines have to be 'furled' (feathered) once the wind passes a rated wind speed and completely shutdown at a maximum wind speed.
The Engineer - News
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I'd like to know how large the sail is when it's unfurled.
Solar sails to take flight - Boing Boing
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Accordingly we went about-ship, got our larboard tacks on board, set the top-gallant sails, and crowded for the bay of All Saints, where we came to an anchor early in the morning, just out of gunshot of the forts; we furled our sails with rope-yarns, that we might haul home the sheets without going up to loose them, and, lowering our main and fore-yards, looked just as if we had lain there a good while.
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
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The floating wooden docks and ships, the tackle and cargo and tall mast swathed in furled sailcloth, together created a smell and feel as exciting as sunshine and promise itself.
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The ambient-light sails had been kept furled during the past few days, and no new power had been gathered for the diapson crystals.
Morgawr
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He unfurled the parchment, and I saw it was covered on both sides with some indecipherable writing I figured must be fairy language, but at the bottom my name was clearly written in thick bloodred ink.
Master of Mirrors
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A fortnight ago, the marchers carried loyalist flags, but claimed that, since the flags were furled, that was all right.
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Columbus and his captains went ashore in an armed launch and unfurled the royal banner and two flags.
Christianity Today
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Just a thought, a brush of desire against its surface, and it unfurled like a bud in springtime, and years of searching came to fruition.
The Grace of the Foolish « A Fly in Amber
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Notice the wind turbine that has its blades furled also has stopped turning.
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A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
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Instead he stood on the step on the driver's side, half in and half out, slowly unfurled his considerable frame to its full height, and began his verbal assault.
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Traveller unfurled a rope ladder and we rejoined our companions in the Smoking Cabin.
ANTI-ICE
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Columbus and his captains went ashore in an armed launch and unfurled the royal banner and two flags.
Christianity Today
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Ramps are usually the first wild food to be harvested by foragers out of the forest, followed by morels, fiddlehead ferns (small, unfurled edible ferns, whose green beans-meets-asparagus flavor is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition) and nettles.
Restaurants See Signs of Spring
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The boat suddenly lurched and spun about as the sail was unfurled and caught the wind.
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The configuration was dart-like: the Striker SK-6 was a swing-wing and at that altitude the mainplanes would normally be in furled position twenty degrees from the fore-aft line of the fuselage and not showing much.
The Striker Portfolio
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Monks scribbled personal details in bound volumes or unfurled wispy scrolls.
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Ere I went below I heard Captain West tell Mr. Pike that while both watches were on deck it would be just as well to put a reef in the foresail before they furled it.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Elsinore, naked-sparred, under only lower-topsails, with spanker and crojack furled, was prepared for anything.
CHAPTER XXVIII
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Then, Lancelot unfurled a roll of names of squires who were to be dubbed a knight.
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After the homer, the Giants unfurled two banners from the light towers on either side of the main scoreboard in center field: one of Bonds on the left side and the other of Hammerin 'Hank's 755, and 715 flashed on the scoreboard.
USATODAY.com - Bonds puts Babe behind him with 715th homer
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Bridget made tea for them both and came and watched as the sweep turned and furled his brushes with a dexterous competence.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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The statistics paint a picture of munchers and snackers toiling over crumb-infested keyboards, surrounded by a sea of empty potato-chip bags and unfurled candy-bar wrappers.
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The topsails were soon clewed up and made fast, then the flying jib run down and furled.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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For example, some plants in this ecoregion have anatomical or physiological modifications such as waxy surfaces on their leaves to reflect heat, hairs to protect against radiation, or tightly furled rosettes of leaves which secrete chemicals making them more resistant to fire.
Campos Rupestres montane savanna
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One minute he's running up to the bow to check a sail is properly unfurled.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Small Heath WRP unfurled their banner, elaborately lettered white on red.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Should tide you over until the flag is unfurled over Ibrox, for lest we forget, Glasgow Rangers are Champions!
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As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles.
Wildwood
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The figure is represented in flowing vestments of white, fringed with gold; and she bears aloft a scarf half unfurled by the breeze.
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Bridget made tea for them both and came and watched as the sweep turned and furled his brushes with a dexterous competence.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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While the faithful filed into the church for Sunday Mass offered by their archbishop, Philippe Cardinal Barbarin, protestors representing Lesbian and Gay Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Forum, and AIDS Rhône unfurled a banner reading “The condom is life - The Church prohibits it” while chanting, “No to the callote (zucchetto), long live the capote (condom)”.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Outdoors, many pedestrians put on thick coat, surround removed scarf, hasty in the fallen leaves that is furled by wind and row, come to the side of of people it seems that in the winter.
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Stuart was dead; -- his sword rusting under the dry leaves of Hollywood, and his battle-flag was furled forever.
Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee
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In Colorado, plunging costs for renewables are furled against the steady upward march of fossil fuels.
Anne Butterfield: The Plunging Cost of Renewables and Boulder's Energy Future
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During the House debate on the Ten's contempt citations, Rankin ostentatiously unfurled a CFA petition in support of the Ten and began to read, a performance intended to raise once more the specter of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy in Hollywood and to warn the recalcitrant CFA members that they could be tarred with the same Red brush as the Ten:
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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He is alleged to have blocked the path of a doorkeeper and unfurled a banner as the protest took place.
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It's like a yo-yo made in China with a string that breaks within 2 seconds of it being unfurled.
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It was quite remarkable: all of a sudden, thinking Australians were reduced to shrieks of joys when a colourful rag was unfurled, (even an outdated and clearly colonial-era one at that).
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The protesters made speeches and unfurled banners and posters accusing the regent of being corrupt and demanding the police investigate him.
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Even with its sails furled, the craft had a romantic, adventuresome look.
THE MYSTERY OF THE CHINESE JUNK
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Wisconsin unfurled last season's Final Four banner, but Northern
NCAA Men's Basketball - Northern Illinois vs. Wisconsin
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Then with sudden animation, he unfurled his scroll.
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We also slept in hammocks, stood lookout watch at the end of the jibboom and furled topgallant sails during beautiful evening sunsets.
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Scrolls of smoke unfurled from three stone chimneys set amidst steep shingled gables.
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At length he tossed the loosened folds of his toga in the air; in reply to the signal, over the aplustre, or fan-like fixture at the stern of the vessel, a scarlet flag was displayed; while several sailors appeared upon the bulwarks, and swung themselves hand over hand up the ropes to the antenna, or yard, and furled the sail.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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Bidding farewell, I unfurled the umbrella, and walked out into the rain.
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Then Dr Salmon triggered a mechanism, which unfurled the umbrellas like a flower and anchored them either side of the hole in the heart.
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a furled flag
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But most of the rolls will also be unfurled on new housing sites springing up all over the country.
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The pirate ship had furled their mainsail and within moments released a smaller topsail, but the distance between the two ships was too great despite the extra sail, and soon they dropped behind, losing heart for the chase.
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There was a glint of light on their deck, and she saw that she too was being watched, then turned her attention to the sails being furled.
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Dusty flags are again unfurled.
Christianity Today
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Having called all hands, we closereefed the topsails and trysail, furled the courses and jib, set the fore-topmast staysail, and brought her up nearly to her course, with the weather braces hauled in a little, to ease her.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
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He took it, almost reluctant to open it, but still he unfurled the flag.
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Indigo Print Patchwork: with only four made and no two the same, these patchworked indigo patterns range from floral, to snowflake, to ornate teardrop, and come from WWII-era Japanese shirting that "hadn't been unfurled since the middle of the last century", something they'll hopefully complain about less than your dad.
Thrillist: General Knot & Co: Dapper Looks From Salvaged Materials
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On the poop I found the Elsinore, with many of her sails furled, slashing along through a troubled sea under an overcast sky.
CHAPTER XI
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The boat suddenly lurched and spun about as the sail was unfurled and caught the wind.