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  • verb Present participle of cone.

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Examples

  • Ear candling, also called coning, involves hollow candles made from a cylinder of fabric covered with wax.

    Clearing Wax Buildup 2008

  • Here's one way to stop that drive-thru coning epidemic: make the inside of your restaurant more fun than the outside.

    McDonalds Channel: Burger Joint Launching In-Restaurant TV Network 2011

  • But he knew that the biggest risk he faced was an increased swelling in the brain that can result in "coning", where the brain stem sinks into the spinal cord, resulting in death.

    Brain haemorrhage: How climbing mountains saved me 2011

  • It looked a very brutal game, shown by how bloody Shaw looked after only coning on with 20 minutes to go.

    Wales v England: five things we learned from Six Nations 2011 opener 2011

  • You clearly illustrate how to keep coning down the focus.

    Re-Write Wednesday: Keeping Focused Janice Hardy 2010

  • The plot: Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog.

    Ooh... You Are Awful X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010

  • Some farmers were busy winnowing the crop on the road, coning off one side of it for a fifty-yard stretch with an infant sat down at either end, presumably calculating that, although drivers would certainly run over cones, they might just think twice about children.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Some farmers were busy winnowing the crop on the road, coning off one side of it for a fifty-yard stretch with an infant sat down at either end, presumably calculating that, although drivers would certainly run over cones, they might just think twice about children.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • A long elegant neck, coning down to a sharpened tip on one end and flaring slightly towards the stern, with chrome testicles like underslung engines, streamlined to minimise air resistance.

    The Unusual Genitals Party 2009

  • He's a sleazy pimp with one Shaniqua and two coning up.

    McCain: Americans Should Be Afraid -- Very Afraid -- Of President Obama 2009

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