coil
noun
a connected series of spirals or rings that rope, wire, or the like has been formed into.
will coil
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future tenseof coil.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Its body will coil around the museum’s gallery, lobby and atrium, and poke through the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
If gently tapped on the head with a stick, it will coil itself up and lie still, only raising its tail and rattling.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
For a serpent thus situated, will coil himself up, and instantaneously darting forward his head, strike and bite whatever comes in his way.
From Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity by Christian Ignatius Latrobe
"Tom, if that monster should begin to slip a little most likely he will coil his tail around some of our control wires,—and then what?"
From Around the World in Ten Days by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
Here, let me see, I will coil this rope; I have plenty of courage, and of fear as little as may be.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
