CONVOLUTION in a Sentence

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For CONVOLUTION, below is one of 5 sentences:
There was the same shortening of the pinna, the same broad curve of the upper lobe, the same convolution of the inner cartilage.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVOLUTION
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convolution
 n.  complex thing; coil;
Classic Sentence:
1  There was the same shortening of the pinna, the same broad curve of the upper lobe, the same convolution of the inner cartilage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
2  Analysis and introspection might come later; but for the moment she was not even troubled by the excesses of the upholstery or the restless convolutions of the furniture.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
3  Lying in strange folds, courses, and convolutions, to their apprehensions, it seems more in keeping with the idea of his general might to regard that mystic part of him as the seat of his intelligence.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
Example Sentence:
1  His argument was so convoluted that few of us could follow it intelligently.
2  With its elaborately carved, convoluted lines, furniture of the Baroque period was highly ornate.