cat's cradle

Examples of cat's cradle in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web The image on the Leopoldstadt playbill is of a young Jewish child playing with a cat's cradle. Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022 But that string can still be made into something perfect: As Ludwig lovingly points out to his grand-nephews, the knots in the cat's cradle always stay the same distance apart no matter how the configuration is manipulated. Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cat's cradle
Noun
  • Deep in the labyrinth of Studio 8H—the longtime home of Saturday Night Live at 30 Rockefeller Center—actor Chloe Fineman sits in a chair with a wig cap on.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In the clip, below, Mark (Adam Scott) appears to be lost in the office's labyrinth as audio snippets from season 1 flash through his mind.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • State of play: The massive Halloween display, with a haunted maze that winds around his house and back out the other side, is now a neighborhood mainstay, open on weekends in October and on Halloween.
    Andrew Keatts, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The first challenge is physically demanding and includes a mud crawl, wood chips, a tall tower climb and a table maze.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Six weeks later, what began as a missing persons case became a murder mystery, as Karen's body was found hidden beneath a tangle of vines by a caretaker near Bledsoe Cemetery in Dyer County.
    Gemma Schneider, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • There’s also a big tangle of conflicting feelings and emotional contexts at play here.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Early 2021: Shipping snarls and worker shortages from the coronavirus pandemic continue to hurt the supply April 2021: Inflation rates cross 4% and increase rapidly Early 2022: Energy and food prices spike due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, many factors that affect the nation's economic performance are beyond the president's control, from shocks like Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the pandemic's supply-chain snarls, which contributed to the highest U.S. inflation in 40 years.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024

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“Cat's cradle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cat%27s%20cradle. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.

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