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
Many microorganisms also spin and corkscrew through water, but the mechanisms behind the salps' motion are different.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
She hands him a corkscrew and asks him to open the bottle he’s brought, to pour himself a glass.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
