Example Sentences

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Zidane, tracking the star-patterned leather like a skeet shooter, hips coiled, unloaded a gold-medal hit.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Played by a snarling, coiled Tom Blyth, Dee swaggers whereas Taylor shrinks.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

As Linda, she exudes a tightly coiled ferocity in sharp contrast to the fog of despair in which Willy seems to move.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

“Now that we have an accumulation of positive news for the stock, and now for the market, Intel was like a coiled spring ready to go,” Ken Mahoney, CEO of Mahoney Asset Management, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Long Teats had blown away, no doubt searching for another grave, and the njuzu were coiled up in their houses at the bottom of the lake.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer