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  • present participle of curl.
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curling

[kur-ling] / ˈkɜr lɪŋ /




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Forced Alisson into an excellent save with a curling effort.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Hobbits “seldom wore shoes, since their feet had tough leathery soles and were clad in a thick curling hair.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Wendy the coyote was a fixture in the San Fernando Valley community for years, often spotted wandering around the neighborhood or curling up to sunbathe in a patch of grass, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Serena Ventures has met with potential investment targets from travel startups to a curling league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“She’s only half right,” Ollie said, a delighted smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

She never made fun of Anna's crimpings and curlings and beauty-rites.

From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather

But should he forget this precaution, never can the dream be brought back to memory: as well try to re-form the curlings of a smoke- wreath blown away.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

Her form by its endless shiftings uttered delicate phrases of pleasure, surprise, or love; her hands and fingers were orators, and eloquent were the curlings and tappings of her Arab feet.

From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne

Small red and yellow spots with puckerings and curlings of the young leaves of Pears, the spots turning darker later on, are due to Phytoptus.

From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward

In thin curlings, the gray smoke floated upwards and lay slumberously among the fleecy clouds.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz


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