On the way down from the ceiling black smoke met plumes of white steam and the two coiled together like lovers, or predator and prey.

DNA usually exists as a double-stranded structure, with both strands coiled together to form the characteristic double-helix.

For a fleeting moment their embracing figures were like the snakes coiled together on the beaches.

Inside the shipping crate, the thin tubes coiled together, shafted into a gray box with display monitor and indicator lights.

All night they had remained coiled together on the narrow hospital bed.

It ran down the side and joined several other gobbets, which writhed and coiled together until they became a Nithling.

In opposite corners, stairwalks coiled together like snail shells, or the double helix so important to the ancients.

The cable is thick at this juncture, thick as three Davaths coiled together.

Blue streaks of light shot from the tips of their fingers, coiling together to form a thick rope of brahman.

With no blossoms and few leaves, they resembled snakes coiled together and smelled faintly of diesel oil.