curlicue
Example Sentences
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She opened the box and pulled out a slender gray velvet dress with thin shoulder straps and a curlicue pattern of beading down one side.
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There is an envelope with my name, Hank Hooperman, in my mom’s curlicue handwriting with hearts above the o’s.
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And maybe even better, since she had a way with writing her ABCs and I couldn’t care less about swoops and curlicues back then.
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She ran so fast her hair came undone and popped up in yellow curlicues all ’round her head.
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On “Rated OG,” he adds intriguing curlicue accents to a chord progression rendered on vibraphone as a forceful, distorted bass riff chugs along underneath.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.