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 tension, the worry, the fear is still there, but Sabrina feels herself uncoil now that she’s racing.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2022
“No. That’s not why. You chose the name Fern because you loved the way ferns uncoil from fronds, like a dancer.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
On the drive out that afternoon, between fields of corn and sunflowers, miles of newly uncoiled barbed wire glint in the sunlight.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
She spoke with the force of a spring uncoiled and the determination of a balled-up fist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024
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
It uncoiled sluggishly upon his back, and, with a shudder, I lifted it with my fingers so it might be combed out.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
The seven-minute “Undoer” is a heaving, odd-meter, coiling and uncoiling stomp that moves on a jazzy bass riff, triplet percussion and an increasingly overwrought vocal from Cameron Winter.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 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
On his way up, he span round on an uncoiling rope with the camera on his back: “There’s GoPro footage of that which still makes me ill.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2018
Hair crawls all over his head, culminating in a black wiry beard uncoiling in every direction at once.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
