coiled

IPA: kˈɔɪɫd

In the form of coils; having coils.
Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

Examples of "coiled" in Sentences

The static, "coiled" shapes appear to writhe on-screen.
I see them swathed in coiled shadows and broad bands of light.
One of them Martin coiled and held before his lips, and blew on it.
Kundalini, most often described as a coiled serpent existing within the body in conjunction with the chakras.
Knees are bent at a subtle angle with your heels ever-so-slightly raised to assume a "coiled" position, ready to strike.
She did not so much move toward him as strike, attacking him with the kind of coiled, primal sexual energy normally held in restraint beneath her noble poise.
She got off the sofa, went over to the fish tank, peering in with a kind of coiled intensity as if she longed to shrink in size and jump into the salt water, becoming one with the crowd idling there.
Watson and Crick found that certain evidence ex cluded the possibility that the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule are paranemically coiled, that is, are so coiled that they can simply slip into and out of each other.