furl
verb (used with object)
to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
furls
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present tense formof furl (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Her Bengali furls backward toward its village origins.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2016
As furls of smoke spread out on a screen above him, a voice intoned "This is the night of the demon" over thunderous bass.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2010
Sings Thoreau:— “His steady sails he never furls At any time o' year, And perching now on winter's curls, He whistles in his ear.”
From Locusts and Wild Honey by John Burroughs
From the fact that it furls its petals upon cloudy days, or at the approach of rain, it is called in England "poor-man's weather-glass."
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
But swift as sailor, by his trembling mast Warned of Circeian tempest, furls his sails, So swift Torquatus saw, and prompt to wage The war more closely, he withdrew his men Within a narrower wall.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
