coil
noun
a connected series of spirals or rings that rope, wire, or the like has been formed into.
is coiling
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present progressiveof coil (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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My heart seemed to cease its beating; I felt like one around whose body some snake is coiling, fold after fold, his slimy grasp.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
You tremble, because only one more link can be added to the chain that is coiling about my neck, and that link is the testimony of the man whose name you expect to bear.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
