Example Sentences

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They packed up their chairs and furled banners, as the makeshift tent city slowly transformed back into a standard campus plaza.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

The baby’s tail or “fluke,” critical to swimming, was still furled from being compacted in utero.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

There’s something called a buzz bud, a little furled blossom, on top.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

But with a dirty hull, a furled black sail and tattooed men stowing gear on deck, it looked like a pirate ship returning from a raid.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2018

Captain Candless shouted as the crew furled the ship’s sails.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi