furls
- present tense form of furl (3rd person singular).
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
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
The flag that this man furls That man to float is fain.
From Poems by Henley, William Ernest
When blythe the blue e'ed dawnin' Steals saftly o'er the lawnin', And furls night's sable awnin', I love to think o' thee.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
