curlicue
Example Sentences
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On “Rated OG,” he adds intriguing curlicue accents to a chord progression rendered on vibraphone as a forceful, distorted bass riff chugs along underneath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Get it really cold and then a giant twist, not those little curlicue twists that they do sometimes.
From Salon ● May 1, 2025
The actors speak their speeches as though they’re invisible to the audience, illustrating their meanings through their exaggerated cadences and stretching out every rhetorical curlicue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
The wooden figure—with its shaggy white hair, black curlicue mustache, and cherubic pink cheeks—bears little resemblance to Donald Trump’s signature comb over and bronzed skin.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2023
He didn’t seem to; he went on writing down his strange curlicue notes about Thomas Hardy in Phineas Shorthand.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Vocabulary lists containing curlicue
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
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The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Milkweed
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