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"Coil" in a Sentence (24 examples)
When a coil is moved near to a wire with current flowing in it current flows in the coil as well.
A Renault 6 doesn't use coil springs or leaf springs. It uses torsion bars in the suspension.
To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause.
When a coil is moved near a wire through which current is flowing, current is generated in the coil as well.
It's a large ring of magnetic coil.
"Who put the mosquito coil here?" "That was me." "It's senseless to put it behind the curtain. The curtain will flutter with the wind, and if it catches the heat then it'll cause a fire."
Coil whine may sometimes be annoying, but it's usually harmless.
Young Burmese pythons coil in plastic boxes at a science lab at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Ziri cleaned the coil of the air conditioner.
Dust collected on the coil of the air conditioner.
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the sinuous coils of a snake
The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’
What trifling coil do we mortals keep; Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.
A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
to coil a rope when not in use
The snake coiled itself before springing.
a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare
a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?
this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.
[T]hey continued ſo extremely fond of Gold, that if Peter ſent them abroad, though it were only upon a Complement; they would Roar, and Spit, and Belch, and Piſs, and Fart, and Snivle out Fire, and keep a perpetual Coyl, till you flung them a Bit of Gold; [...]
His liver demanded activity, namely, a quarrel, and what a coil this was!
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