He carefully coiled the wire about this knoblike section.

He arranged the forty-five-foot length on the office floor, carefully coiled it to be certain that it would pay out without tangling, and finally tied the free end around his waist.

The sea otter had personally checked that all the sails were reefed tightly under their mast spars; every piece of rigging he inspected, carefully coiling each rope and line.

Of course, the President was a very odd man indeed, like an intricate piece of machinery carefully coiled in upon itself.

He tied a large loop in one end of the rope with a slipknot and carefully coiled the remainder.

George Enos carefully coiled the last line that had held Sweet Sue to T Wharf.

The strip he coiled carefully, till it disappeared in his hand.

To wear this the orot is slowly and carefully coiled around the hip.

He pulled his traveling bag from under the bed, dumped out its contents and put the rope, carefully coiled, in their place.

The rest he carefully coiled and put back in his pack.