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Uncoiling a booming serve, Ken won the first game with the loss of only one point.

From Time Magazine Archive

Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Uncoiling Shadow’s climbing rope, he bound Ragear paw and claw to a sturdy oak.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Uncoiling his length from the hammock, he took two strides forward, and lifting Gerald in his arms as if he were an infant, carried him off bodily.

From The Merryweathers by Richards, Julia Ward

Uncoiling as they grow, they have some likeness to a crosier.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa