Zippering

I ducked through the opening to the tent, zippering it tightly behind me. ❋ FRANKLIN W. DIXON (2009)

The cloth made a soft zippering sound as it ripped. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was psyching myself up during the hour long car ride to the launch point; while zippering up my hideous, blue jumpsuit and pulling on a tiny rubber cap and goggles; even while being edged to the side of an open hatch at 13,500 feet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hal caught her eye, and mimed zippering his mouth shut. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

If zippering seems like too much of a hassle to your child, use a binder with a Velcro closure so she can at least contain loose papers as she runs from one class to another. ❋ Donna Goldberg With Jennifer Zwiebel (2005)

Fats composed of straight-chain saturated fatty acids fall into an ordered solid structure— the process has been described as “zippering”—more readily than do kinked unsaturated fats. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

I ran my finger across my mouth, zippering it shut. ❋ Unknown (2004)

One favorite tote, twelve to fourteen inches high by sixteen inches wide, is divided into several sections with one zippering shut for security, and several side pockets inside as well as one flapped side pocket outside. ❋ Judie Taggart (2003)

While they were running, they were putting their gas masks on and buttoning up, zippering up their chemical clothes, their shirts, their pants. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Tucking his pistol into a thigh pocket and zippering it shut, Clan opened the hatch and started down the steel rungs of the ladder. ❋ Bova, Ben (1993)

Ignoring her, he bolted from her bed, stuffing his shirt in his pants with trembling hands and zippering them up. ❋ Patricia MacDonald (1981)

Assistant Principal Jodie Cohen got to the room minutes later, she saw Brito "leaning against the teacher's desk... and she seemed to be, like, zippering her boot and finishing buttoning her shirt." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Zip1 constitutes the central element of the synaptonemal complex (SC), and is necessary to bridge the lateral elements that assemble along the cores of the chromosomes, thus zippering the homologous partners together ❋ David Obeso Et Al. (2010)

Racing past cars to get to the end point and then thinking you'll be let in is not zippering, if that's the strategy your friends are objecting to. the proper place to merge is one that doesn't require you to slow down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A flock of 50 ravens flies overhead, literally wingtip to wingtip in rare unravenlike silence except for their feathers zippering the quiet. ❋ Unknown (2009)