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
Many microorganisms also spin and corkscrew through water, but the mechanisms behind the salps' motion are different.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
Suddenly he gave a long, twisting, corkscrew leap and his golden outer skin lay on the floor, and in its place he was wearing a new coat of shining silver.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
