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Told in rhyming verse, Carroll’s trademark use of deep reds and blue give the proceedings an eerie whimsy, and her layouts — always brilliant — furl and explode across the page.

From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2018

Smith: I go out on the yard to furl the sail and all that stuff.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2017

Of course, don’t furl the flag or shut down those offshore accounts or start writing the complete history of American decline quite yet.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2016

Behind him, shaven-headed demonstrators furl the English flag, the Cross of St. George.

From Time ● Jul. 29, 2011

The crew were on their feet briskly, to furl the sail, and stow it; then, each in place, they poised the smooth oar blades and sent the white foam scudding by.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

Now comes the storm, thought Heiton to himself, and began to collect his thoughts, as the cautious master of a vessel furls his sails, and makes his ship snug, when he discerns the approaching squall.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

Each, air that faintly curls   About thy nest   Its daring pinion furls   Within thy breast.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

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

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

But Waterston, 81, had still insisted on meeting in Central Park, armed against the wintry mix in a broad-brimmed hat, a leather jacket and an umbrella that he mostly left furled.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

In an affidavit, Halim said a man named “Wilbur” or “Kinly” had created a diversion at the back of the ballroom before the shooting, igniting a furled sock as a makeshift smoke bomb.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

Ray Anderson and Brian Witzke spend their working lives up here amid disordered heaps of papers, journals, furled charts, and hefty specimen stones.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Near the bandstand, a group of people danced in a circle to Khmer music, dreamily furling their fingers and twisting their wrists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

Decades after the furling of Britain’s union flag, he waved his liberation credentials with such skill and frequency that he stood as an emblem, however flawed, of Africa’s yearning to be free of outside control.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017

Mostly, though, what’s satisfying about “Other Lives” is that there’s some actual meat on the bones of the story; it’s not just insinuation and cigarette smoke furling into a dark bar.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2015

A problem with the furling system on the main sail was the cause of Ainslie's problems, according to Branson.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2015

Some of the crew were on the yards, furling the sails; some of them, down below.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee