corkscrew

Example Sentences

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She is a fashionable woman, with corkscrew curls coming down in front of her ears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

A cork is when a spin is combined with a flip, resulting in an 'off-axis' direction of travel resembling a corkscrew.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

This time I swam the corkscrew, a crazy stroke my kids learned at summer camp, where you do a freestyle stroke, roll into a back stroke, then over again into a freestyle stroke.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Where shorter colonies spun around an axis, like a spiraling football, longer chains would buckle and coil like a corkscrew.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

It had two high-tech-looking antennas on top—one on the back that looked like a corkscrew, and one in the middle that swiveled.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor