uncoil
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There is fundamental pent-up demand for home improvement that should uncoil as housing turnover improves.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Slamming her feet down on the springboard, Biles compresses the springs that then uncoil and transfer energy back into her body as she reaches up and backward for the vault table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Had I said, "I love you"? I will never be able to uncoil that memory from my brain.
From Salon ● May 2, 2023
The story — and the horror — uncoil in distinctly feminine spaces, to the music of “spoons striking against frail cups” and the high, pealing sound of a woman laughing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
Volkheimer returns carrying a clattering raft of buckets; two other seniors uncoil a water hose across the quadrangle.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
When the material is pulled, hidden length inside the polymer uncoils, allowing it to elongate up to 40 times more than standard polymers without weakening.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
But Mills can tell when Junie is over it herself: Her tongue uncoils further out the crook of her mouth, dashes turn into trots, trots turn into steps, steps turn to sit.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
A final curl of smoke uncoils in the wind.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
But the action is well mounted and the tension tightly wound; it uncoils, when it does, with a satisfying snap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
Lala uncoils something from her hip and looks at her crew.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
He measured each step, sprang forward and then uncoiled, thumping the ball out of Allen’s grip to send it skidding to the turf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
Razor wire has also been uncoiled along the border.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
Officers from Customs and Border Protection uncoiled razor wire across the railway gate.
From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2023
In the electric revival that opened on Thursday at Circle in the Square, Teach is embodied with coiled and then terrifyingly uncoiled ferocity by Sam Rockwell, making a great occasion of a great role.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
The strap’s design was simple, unusual, and consisted of blue curls that Ten Snow bashfully explained were the uncoiled heads of new spring ferns, her husband’s favorite food.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
He exploded out of his stance, a spring uncoiling, and his cleats ripped through the grass.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
He published photographs of security officers uncoiling barbed wire next to a wall that appeared more than two metres high.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2022
It’s followed by an uncoiling down the mound with the left hand holding the baseball last in the movement.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Media vita’s slowly uncoiling intensity got me through at first.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2020
The king’s host departed Deepwood Motte by the light of a golden dawn, uncoiling from behind the log palisades like a long, steel serpent emerging from its nest.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
