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
It could be a long, slow descent with the lights out on an RAF jet, or a rapid, corkscrew down in a C-130 transport plane.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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
I handed John a corkscrew while I laid out the crystal—three plastic coffee cups, a jelly glass, a shaving mug, and several wide-mouthed pill bottles.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
