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curved inward



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The shape of the coast in that region – known as Florida’s Big Bend area – is also curved inward, which can focus the storm surge to make it even more dangerous, he said.

From Seattle Times Aug. 29, 2023

Unlike the fossilized bear’s straight thumbs, modern panda’s pseudothumbs are curved inward like a hook.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2022

The beach curved inward, forming a small bay sheltered by outlying skerries.

From The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson

Gaspare clapped his hands alternately in front of him and behind him, leaping from side to side, with a step in which one foot crossed over the other, and holding his body slightly curved inward.

From The Call of the Blood by Orson Lowell

Incur′vāte, to turn from a straight course.—adj. curved inward or upward.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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