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
Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024
“Here is the corkscrew, Signor Tenente,” the orderly said.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
