Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.

That rope has to be coiled.

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 lo! – the tale I shudder to pursue – / from Tenedos in silence, side by side, / two monstrous serpents, horrible to view, / with coils enormous leaning on the tide, / shoreward, with even stretch, the tranquil sea divide.

When a coil is moved near a wire through which current is flowing, current is generated in the coil as well.

They hurried to the hayfield below the barn where Matthew was coiling hay.

The snake coils itself up.

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."

A Renault 6 doesn't use coil springs or leaf springs. It uses torsion bars in the suspension.

Her hair hung in neat coils.