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How to use coil in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Coil means something wound in the form of a helix or spiral. Example: “A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.”

Examples of coil by meaning

nounSomething wound in the form of a helix or spiral.

  • the sinuous coils of a snake

nounAny intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped).

  • ‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil.2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 293
  • After Hayley’s years of toil with a coil, and the pain of childbirth, I was due a little discomfort.2026 May 11, Tim Burrows, “My first thought after having a vasectomy: why aren’t more British men having them?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

verbTo wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.

  • A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.

verbTo wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.

  • The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.

verbTo wind cylindrically or spirally.

  • to coil a rope when not in use
  • The snake coiled itself before springing.

More sentences with coil

  • I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.From the entry -like
  • Wireless phone technology led to the disappearance of once-common coiled cords for telephone handsets.From the entry disappearance
  • The snake was coiled about his ankle.From the entry about
  • The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.From the entry rod
  • I changed the plugs and the coil packs.From the entry plug
  • The snake's coils were tightly convoluted.From the entry convolute
  • I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.”2026, Sebastian Mallaby, “Introduction”, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin…. From the entry croak
  • Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry prayer beads
  • Sure, ammonoid shells as a whole got progressively more coiled over the Devonian.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry ammonitella
  • These hyphal coils develop into pre-fruiting bodies named protoperithecia within 5 days.2015 September 30, “Germinal Center Kinases SmKIN3 and SmKIN24 Are Associated with the Sordaria macrospora Striatin-Interacting…. From the entry protoperithecia
  • Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268. From the entry puki
  • Each line was coiled into a wooden barrel three feet in diameter and thirty inches high.2011, Brenda Bishop Booma, Hugh Peabody Bishop, Marblehead's First Harbor. From the entry ganging
  • The internal unit and TETS coil were implanted into subcutaneous space at the abdominal wall.2007, Ryohei Saisho, Takuya Ohsugi, Masaya Watada, Yong-Jae Kim, Katsuhiro Ohuchi, Setsuo Takatani, Yong-su Um, “The re-design of…. From the entry tets
  • Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241. From the entry brolga
  • He had cleared it of springs, tubes, coils and clockworky bits for the occasion.2006, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Strictest School in the World, page 150. From the entry clockworky
  • Ignition coils using a bobbin molded from high-performance polyester withstand open-circuit bench tests to 70kV.Jan. 8, 2004, Machine Design Magazine, p. 108. From the entry bobbin
  • Small planospiral criocones with partially coiled whorls (microconchs) or completely uncoiled (macroconchs).2002, K. Histon, Albert Daurer, Cephalopods, present and past. From the entry criocone
  • When her headcloth came off, the coils of hair shone night-black, with hoarfrosty glints of silver.2001, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 312. From the entry hoarfrosty
  • The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung.2000, Moira Vincentelli, “Running the Business”, in Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester…. From the entry bonfire
  • But his hands slipped on their damp and gleaming bodies which were coiled about like snakes.1995, Guillaume Apollinaire, Flesh Unlimited: Two Erotic Novellas, page 17. From the entry masturbatrix
  • A snaky neck coiled, and it was coming down at us, and it was all teeth.1995, Richard Peck, Lost in Cyberspace, Puffin Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
  • In midair his lower half morphed, and suddenly he was one-half humanoid, one-half coiled spring.1993, Peter David, The Siege. From the entry morph
  • An unblooped splice can cause a large signal spike, which blows out the voice coil.1991, Tony Zaza, Mechanics of sound recording, page 372. From the entry unblooped
  • On this base are "Various Serpents" made out of metal, the triumph of the coiling process.1986 August 24, William Zimmer, “Mayan Themes in Stamford Sculpture Show”, in New York Times, page CN28. From the entry curvaceousness
  • Coiling is serpenticone or heteromorph, sculpture is of ribbing (almost invariably simple), with external tuberculation in Choristoceratidae.1979, Paper, →ISBN. From the entry serpenticone
  • It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80. From the entry aura
  • On his head was something like a miter, carrying a coiled brass snake in front of it.1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry prismatically
  • Coil spring setters install springs after webbers have tacked the webbing on which the springs rest.1944, Occupational Briefs on America's Major Job Fields, page 59. From the entry webber
  • On small boats lines are usually either coiled down or flemished down.1943 November, “More on Marlinespike”, in Charles F[rederic] Chapman, editor, Motor Boating: The Yachtsman’s Magazine, volume 72, number…. From the entry flemish
  • His soul may have found rest, but “his mortal coil” certainly did not.1918, Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews, Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in…. From the entry mortal coil
  • The field coils are separetely excited by current from a 54-cell Willard storage battery.1918, Engineering Society of the University of Nebraska, Nebraska Blue Print, numbers 17-19. From the entry absorbsion
  • In both tubothalameans and globothalameans, the chambers more or less coil around the proloculus to form a spiral.2020 September 25, Christopher Taylor, “The Glandulinid Position”, in Catalogue of Organisms. From the entry globothalamean
  • There are a lot of fossil spirulids, though, enough to show us the probably evolution of the ram's horn coil.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry spirulid

Meaning of coil

  1. noun Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
  2. noun Any intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped).
  3. noun A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

Full definition of coil

Questions about coil in a sentence

How do you use coil in a sentence?
Coil is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.”
What is a short sentence with coil?
“The snake coiled itself before springing.”
What does coil mean?
Coil means something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coil (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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